Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course the note turns out to be no joke, and one fine sunny day, during an air-raid drill, an ocean-going tug chugs past the Statue of Liberty, and 20 mailclad bowmen make a beachhead in lower Manhattan. They move inland through deserted streets and occupy a scientific institute-where, as it happens, Dr. Alfred Kokintz, the great physicist, is putting the final touches to the Q-bomb, a football-shaped object that will erase an area of 2,000,000 square miles if it ever explodes. The bowmen capture the bomb and the man who made it, take...
Died. Louis Shattuck Gates, 77, onetime (1930-47) president and board chairman (since 1947) of Phelps Dodge, which he helped make into one of copper's Big Three; in Manhattan...
...found that the increase has not brought any decided boost in interest rates since June. Even though the prime rate on business loans has been raised to 5%, most banks said that they were keeping installment rates at about the same levels as early in the year. The Chase Manhattan Bank, in its bimonthly letter, also saw no danger in the increase in installment loans. Although the rate of installment credit is growing faster than in 1955, said the Chase Bank, consumer income is now larger. Despite its dollar increase, the rise in installment credit equals only 1.9% of income...
Trim (5 ft. 11 in., 180 lbs.) and broad-shouldered, Edgar keeps himself in shape for long hours on the job. He spends a quarter of his time hopping from country to country, divides the rest between offices in Oakland and Manhattan. His 12-ft. blond-wood desk in Oakland is equipped with 20 intercoms and 17 phone lines that can reach his network of 91 plants and facilities in seconds. Henry J. still keeps in touch from Hawaii, often calls up sleeping Edgar at 4:30 a.m. and chortles: "Oh, did I wake...
...Manhattan last week went two eager makers of business machines with audacious plans to challenge the International Business Machines Corp. in IBM's home market. The foreign businessmen: President Joseph Callies, 50, and General Manager Georges Vieillard, 64, of France's fast-rising La Compagnie des Machines Bull. Barely known outside France ten years ago, Machines Bull manufactures a line of punch-card and sorting machines topped off by computers. Recently it pulled abreast of IBM in many markets of the Continent, is now the biggest computer maker outside...