Word: jaye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nimbly, Odium had shifted some burdensome problems on to the broad shoulders of General Dynamics' President John Jay Hopkins, who had courage to take on Convair. Only eight months ago its B60 bomber, on which it had pinned its biggest hopes for multimillion Government orders, had been turned down by the Air Force in favor of Boeing's B-52 (TIME, Aug. 4). But Hopkins was making a calculated gamble on a longer-range future. Convair has the Government contract to develop an aircraft driven by atomic propulsion. Since Hopkins' own company already has the Navy...
PRINCE BART (440 pp.)-Jay Richard Kennedy -Farrar, Straus & Young...
Despite the reduction in ticket price, Chuck Gordon '54, Co-Chairman of the Crimson Key Weekend, said the dance would have "good continuous music" from Jack Edwards' 15-piece orchestra. The band features Jay White on the alto-saxophone...
...technician, he started Business Week in 1929. Two months after Business Week was launched, the stock market crashed, and in 1932 and 1933 the company showed the only losses in its history. But Business Week pulled out of the red before Founder McGraw retired in 1935. His son James ("Jay") McGraw, a Princeton graduate ('15) and a stiff-collared executive who had grown up in the company, took over...
With American industry, McGraw-Hill continued to expand, and sometimes a popular department in one magazine budded into a new magazine, e.g., when one of the departments in Chemical Engineering grew too big, it became Food Engineering. Under Jay McGraw, the company made its only attempt-with Science Illustrated-to step out of the trade into the general circulation field. It was a resounding flop. Between 1945-47, the new magazine lost upwards of $2,000,000. It was beginning to find itself, when Jay McGraw folded it to get ready for the postwar depression mistakenly predicted by his economists...