Word: j
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard College graduates will vote in the next few months to elect five new members of the Board of Overseers. Ten candidates have been nominated for the positions, including United Nations specialist Ralph J. Bunche and New York investment banker John L. Loeb '24, donor of $1.5 million for the planned theatre and drama center...
...United Aircraft Corp., $661.1 million, including J57 and J-75 jet engines, helicopters...
...Navy-specified Westinghouse engine (in itself a problem child), and turned into a $265 million fiasco for the Navy (TIME, Nov. 7, 1955). The setback would have crippled many companies, but McDonnell kept arguing that the plane was basically sound, proved it with a more powerful Allison J-71 engine which made the Demon so hot that the Navy eventually boosted its orders to $450 million...
ANTISMOG MUFFLER, developed by Inventor Eugene J. Houdry and Pennsylvania's Oxy-Catalyst, Inc., chemically removed up to 90% of auto's unburned exhaust gases in road tests by General Motors...
...barbed wire and once-so they say-bet $1,000,000 on the result of a race between two raindrops down a Pullman window; in St. Charles. A town of 7,700, St. Charles and its enterprises received over the years some $5,000,000 in gifts from E. J. Baker...