Word: largest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President said he will ask Congress to authorize the huge project--a machine two miles long, the largest of its kind ever to be built. Construction would take six years...
...quarter earnings from the nation's two leading steelmakers. Top-ranking U.S. Steel Corp. reported a 9.9% return on sales for a net of $106.6 million, or $1.86 per share, up more than 70% from $1.04 per share for the first quarter last year. Bethlehem Steel Corp., second largest producer, doubled its first-quarter earnings per share to $1.06 from 52? last year...
...specialty is modernizing them. Last week Tom Evans, chairman of Pittsburgh's H. K. Porter Co., Inc., an industrial combine with assets of $57 million, added another heirloom. He took over as board chairman and chief executive officer of Chicago's Crane Co., the nation's largest manufacturer of valves, fittings and pipes, in a shake-up of 104-year-old Crane's management...
...lead in gunite construction are the Anthony Bros., Inc. of South Gate, Calif. (1958 sales: $8,000,000 ). The four brothers this year will market 50 models, including starfish-and boomerang-shaped pools, priced from $2,800, expect sales to top $10 million. For the nation's largest pool-equipment maker, Swimquip, Inc. of El Monte, Calif., the torrent of 1959 business has come so fast that all materials allocated for the first half were used up in the first quarter. Said President William O. Baker: "This year the business has gone crazy...
Applications were "widely distributed" among the eight Houses, Watson indicated, although Quincy did receive the largest number of first-place applications. According to a CRIMSON poll, nearly 30 per cent of the Freshmen chose Quincy first...