Word: largest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...largest and heaviest of the Army's ballistic weapons, the 69-foot-long, six-feet thick Redstone blasted off into a starry, almost cloudless sky and appeared to make a successful flight...
Neil Hosier McElroy, 53, for nine years president of Procter & Gamble, sat down at Washington's largest desk (9 ft. by 4 ft. 11 in., with 20 drawers), which had been used by General John J. Pershing in World War I and by General George Marshall in World War II. Near by was William Tecumseh Sherman's ornate library table, and on it a model of the Oozlefinch bird, a frog-eyed, missile-toting creature, the insigne of Army missilemen at Fort Bliss, Texas. Also on the Sherman table were the three telephones whose rings, over the coming...
Defense Secretary McElroy had just come from the U.S.'s 29th largest corporation to the world's largest public business-and Procter & Gamble seemed small by comparison. P. & G.'s 1957 net sales of $1,156,000,000 amounted to the operating costs of the Defense Department for ten days. Its $67 million net earnings would buy little more than a fully equipped nuclear submarine. Moreover, the rush of military technology had made the job of Defense Secretary bigger and tougher than ever before. The Soviet satellite revised all military parameters, and it was up to Neil...
...Indian air force. Streaking into Bombay in eleven minutes, Menon next appeared-natty in a white suit and swinging a cane-aboard the cruiser Mysore, the new flagship of the Indian navy. But it was as a politician of the folksy, Estes Kefauver model that Menon drew the largest crowds. At New Delhi and Madras he packed meeting halls to the rafters, and dhoti-clad crowds filled the streets outside waiting to hear him. To a youth rally of 25,000, Menon cried defiance of Pakistan over the invasion of Kashmir, and drew roars of approval for a slashing attack...
...project, has started to dicker with at least five "interested" insurance companies, and one is considering putting up $50 million. Fox's lot-half of which it bought from oldtime Film Cowboys Tom Mix and Buck Jones, who used it to stable their horses-is the largest piece of underdeveloped real estate in a city that is rapidly running out of space. Quietly for the past year, Fox has been drawing up plans to exploit the plot. Architect Welton Becket's models call for Fox to shrink its moviemaking operations into 79 acres on the southwest part...