Word: makers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Smoldering grievances burst into flame again in Argentina last week as military units rebelled in the nation's hottest blaze of violence since President Juan Perón seized power in 1945. As a tough dictator, a maker and user of violence, Juan Perón gave many Argentines cause for hatred and anger. Among the revolt's leaders were Roman Catholics outraged by Perón's attacks on the church, ardent nationalists opposed to his oil-exploitation contract with a Yanqui company, sincere patriots sick of the corrosion of liberty, dissident officers who lost their...
...only three wheels and a tiny (10 h.p.) engine, hooked up to the single rear wheel. But it was no toy. It could carry three passengers at a 'top speed of 60 m.p.h., could go 94 miles on a gallon of gasoline. The price: $869 to $998. The maker: the Messerschmitt Works of Regensburg, West Germany...
...expanding its holdings, concentrate on developing them. To that end, Ventures is being reorganized so that the board will have fewer staff executives, more experts in finance and business. ¶ Robert Hugh Johnson. 56, moved up from first vice president to president of Ingersoll-Rand Co., biggest U.S. maker of industrial machinery. Engineer Johnson, a one-company man, joined Ingersoll-Rand in 1924 after leaving M.I.T. He became manager of the Houston branch in 1930, moved steadily through local offices. In 1939 he became assistant vice president and in 1955 first vice president...
...mail-order shipments of price-cut appliances from non-Fair Trade places into Fair Trade states "hopelessly" broke down enforcement, and 2) the "varying price situation" from one state to another made national promotions almost impossible. It was the second big pull-out of the year; earlier, toy-train maker Lionel Corp. abandoned Fair Trade, dropped lawsuits against R. H. Macy and other retailers...
...Second Hundred Million. G.M., which did not start breaking even with diesels until 1940, today is the world's largest maker, has turned out 100 million diesel horsepower, more than the capacity of all the steam-generating plants built by industry during the same period. Burning low-cost oil, diesel engines today propel 49% of all U.S. merchant ships afloat, handle most of the. nation's roughest construction jobs, from road building to rock-crushing. Predicts G.M.'s Harlow H. Curtice: "Within ten years we shall have duplicated the efforts of the preceding 22 ... It took...