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...separate check of 25 of the nation's largest companies turned up a goodly number that pledged money to cover the quick cash loan signed by General Clay. Among them: Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), N.Y.C., $100,000; Texaco Inc., N.Y.C., $100,000; Ford Motor Co. Fund, Dearborn, Mich., a nonprofit corporation supported by Ford Motor Co., $100,000; Socony Mobil Oil Co., N.Y.C., $25,000; Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., N.Y.C., $10,000; Dallas Clearing House Association, $10,000; and Shell Oil Co., N.Y.C., an undisclosed amount. General Motors Corp. was reported to have given $150,000 but declined...
...wallow in U.S. waters-about one for every 24 men, women and children in the land. And the $2.5 billion business they keep afloat is confident of booming new records in 1963. This week the boat business played host to the boat-hooked public at the 53rd annual Motor Boat Show in Manhattan's Coliseum...
...that a woman at sea is bad luck has long since sunk without a trace. Every boat seemed designed to appeal to the feminine eye for color and convenience, even in the sailboats, the last stronghold of the hornyhanded old salt. Most fetching was a 35-ft. sloop-rigged motor sailer made by that master of motorboats, Chris-Craft. With 563 sq. ft. of sail on a beamy (11 ft.) Fiberglas hull, Chris-Craft's "sail yacht" is powered by a hefty 60-h.p. engine that gives it a cruising speed of six or seven knots. In cabins finished...
...hundreds of apples came cascading down onto the whirling rollers from an opening in the wall. As they hit the machine they were bounced violently up and down and eventually were tossed into a receptacle at one end of the apparatus, much battered and bruised. Mr. Whiteside stopped the motor and again we could hear ourselves think. "That piece of machinery set us back twelve thousand," said Mr. Whiteside proudly, "but it can bruise 300 apples a minute." We whistled in astonishment at this efficiency...
Building Too Fast. First to be hurt-because they were the first to be ringed in by motels-were hotels in smaller cities. But now gilded, multistoried motor hotels audaciously push into the heart of big cities. And established big-city hotels find themselves further threatened by the fancy new hotels being put up by chain hotel operators, such as the Hilton hotels now going up in San Francisco and Manhattan. "Overbuilding is our biggest problem," moans Manager Philip Weber of Los Angeles' sprawling old Ambassador. "We're building new facilities more rapidly than either travel...