Word: millinger
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¶ After ten years as boss of General Foods Corp., largest U.S. maker of packaged foods (fiscal 1953 sales: $701.1 million), Chairman Clarence Francis, 64, prepared to retire next March by handing over the reins as chief executive officer to Austin Smith Igleheart, 63, who started with General Foods in...
Highland Home. Above the slopes, where derby-hatted women miners pick and sort the greyish-blue lumps for milling, are Huanuni's strings of company-built miners' homes. Over a cow-dung fire, Sabino Perez' wife cooks the evening meal of potatoes; because of the low boiling...
The political soothsayers last week stepped up their efforts to look into the future. Some of their methods were doubtless better than those of the ancients who examined chicken entrails. In Washington, D.C., retired Barber Harry Rich announced that customers of the nation's barbershops favored Stevenson over Eisenhower...
When Karel Capek wrote these words in his 1920 play R.U.R., such a dream of effortless productivity seemed fantastic indeed. But this week, when Massachusetts Institute of Technology explained the operations of the first completely automatized milling machine, the idea no longer seemed quite so farfetched. Ranged beside the big...
M.I.T. was able to build its robot machine only because the U.S. Air Force paid the $400.000 cost in the hope of finding production shortcuts. But now that the prototype has been built, Engineer Pease estimates that a duplicate, easily convertible to other jobs, could be made for $50,000...