Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beginnings. His Scots-Irish family has been in the machinery-manufacturing business since 1860, when grandfather John McCone started an iron foundry in Virginia City, Nev. His father opened branch plants in Reno, Los Angeles and San Francisco, where John Alex McCone was born Jan. 4, 1902. He studied engineering at the University of California, at Berkeley (B.S., '22), took his first job that year as a riveter and boilermaker with Los Angeles' Llewellyn Iron Works...
...week schedule. At Calship, Engineer McCone found ways to set production goals higher than anyone thought possible, saw to it that they were met. Result: Calship produced 467 ships worth a billion dollars. Since World War II's end he has taken over and built up a onetime iron works into the Joshua Hendy Corp., which operates a fleet of 40 to 50 tankers and cargo ships. To avoid conflict of interest with his AEC job, McCone has agreed to resign from Hendy and dispose of conflicting business holdings...
...gets open fire (and iron stove if it is cold) going. Heats hot water and squeezes lemon juice...
...chances of an ensuing dip in the economy, sat down the next afternoon in her grab-bag office at the Post and pounded out one of the first stories predicting the onset of the recession. Other columns come from her own frustrations. When her vacuum cleaner, television set and iron all broke down in a single day, she wrote a scathing column blaming planned obsolescence-and got 500 supporting letters from readers. A product of the '30s, she readily admits that she leans toward pump-priming Keynesian economics and the Democratic Party. "I don't see how anyone...
Four profesosrs discussed aspects of contemporary Soviet education, economy, public attitudes, and life in the satellites --most of them speaking on the basis of recent trips behind the Iron Curtain...