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Though for 25 years bustling Lima, Ohio (pop. 55,700) had supported only one newspaper, a second daily was born there last week and thousands cheered. Reason: Limaites had come to hate their longtime standby, the Lima News. The News was long regarded as a forward-looking, studiously fair paper, and it was seldom, if ever, attacked for abusing its monopoly position in Lima (pronounced as in Lima bean). But people started changing their minds about the News in February 1956, when the family-owned paper was sold to Raymond Cyrus Hoiles (TIME, Dec. 31, 1951) and his Freedom Newspapers...
...November election, 92% of Lima's registered voters trooped to the polls and approved the project by the biggest majority (76%) ever given a bond issue in the city's history. Next day a parking meter outside the News sprouted a sign: HOILES, GO HOME! Said Laurence H. Larsen, executive vice president of Superior Coach Co.: "Everything possible has been done to alienate every single group in town since Hoiles took over. They couldn't have done a better job of it if they had planned it this...
...Caterpillar had so much tough competition to keep ahead of. General Motors acquired Euclid Road Machinery Co. in 1953 to apply its automobile know-how to road-building equipment, pioneered twin-engined crawlers and scrapers, quickly pushed itself into the big five among equipment manufacturers. Philadelphia's Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton, longtime locomotive manufacturer, switched to road-building equipment, this year expects its construction sales to top $70 million. Dozens of companies manufacturing everything from spinning machines to television towers are starting to make road-building equipment. Westinghouse Air Brake Co. bought the earth-moving division of his company from...
...South American by birth. Sert came to the United States in 1939. He has had extensive experience in long-range planning, having designed the master plans for the cities of Lima, Peru; Medellin, Cali, and Bogota, Colombia...
...Groton, Conn. last week, two sleek, new submarines for the Peruvian navy slid down the ways in a dramatic double launching, and a watching crowd cheered. In Lima, a sour official communiqué suggested that the new government would have been just as happy if the submarines had never been ordered...