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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Former (1951-53) Secretary of the Navy Dan Kimball, 61, now a California aircraft-products maker, and his wife Dorothy, after 32 years of marriage, allowed that they have separated, but denied any divorce intentions. Explained Dorothy Kimball: "He is a man who is away from home for extended periods. This has been our problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 1, 1957 | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

...selling off plants of Pratt-Whitney, a subsidiary machine-tool maker (no connection with the aircraft-engine firm), Silberstein raised $4,500,000 in cash, then leased back the plants for 30 years at a total rental of $30.9 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: International Intrigue | 3/25/1957 | See Source »

...Southdale Super Valu supermarket in Minneapolis has installed 25 portable radios on shopping carts so customers can hear favorite programs while they shop. Bob Tait, president of the store, got the idea after buying a $29.50 battery radio for his daughter's bicycle, is now dickering with a maker for 75 transistor sets specially designed for supermarket listening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Mar. 4, 1957 | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

Canty and Woolston have averaged 11 and 12 points apiece, and are usually consistent athletes. Barnett is the play maker and defensive man on this team. If they can manage to overcome their sole disadvantage, Crimson fans can expect a close game tonight...

Author: By John A. Rava, | Title: Greater Height Gives Princeton Edge Over Crimson Five Tonight | 2/16/1957 | See Source »

Twelve years ago Max Grundig was just another drummed-out German quartermaster private, with a headful of ideas and a handful of tools. But he had neither money nor shop with which to put them to work. Today Grundig is Germany's No. 1 radio-set maker, claims to be Europe's biggest. At 48 he is owner and ram-rodding boss of a 13,000-worker, six-plant electronics business that last year grossed some $50 million on sales of 900,000 radios, TV sets, phonographs and recorders. Almost half were exported, including big shipments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Electronics from Germany | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

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