Word: nash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leonard K. Nash, associate professor of Chemistry, actively disproved the Phlogiston theory in Natural Sciences 4 yesterday morning by an unintentional explosion which slightly injured him, deafened his students, and shattered glass as far as the back row of Burr...
Even the most prosperous poets, said prosperous Poet Ogden (Hard Lines) Nash, sometimes like to "make a little dough" on a sideline. Nash's sideline: guest expert on television panels. Said he: "TV is the biggest racket ever invented. I love it. Half an hour's fun a week-and they pay you for it ... Most of the mail I get is from eleven-year-old children who say 'I loved your book, David Copperfield, please send me your picture...
...battle G.M. and Ford, Chrysler Corp. has spent $250 million (TIME, Oct. 25). Studebaker-Packard has spent $120 million for new bodies and a new V-8 engine for Packard. Nash and Hudson (now American Motors) have redesigned, installed V-8s in their larger models to get a bigger share of the market than this year's 100,000 or so cars...
...from 41.7% to 49.9% (and Ford's has gone from 22.8% to 30.8%), Chrysler's share has plummeted from 21.3% to 13.5%. The former independents, which in 1952 accounted for 13.2% of auto sales, have dropped this year to 5.8%. Studebaker and Packard, Kaiser and Willys, and Nash and Hudson have had to team up to stay in business...
...before returning to Washington as a lobbyist for the company when it was investigated on antitrust charges in 1937. He joined the Automobile Manufacturers Association in 1939 and rose to managing director. Romney became good friends with George Mason, then president of the A.M.A. When Mason became chairman of Nash in 1948, he invited Romney along "to learn the business from the ground up" as his roving assistant...