Word: pistons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...consumers' group. They had two things in common-they were responsible for the personnel policies of their organizations, and they wanted to know how psychology and psychiatry could help them with their problems. Companies represented ranged from giant A. T. & T. through Kraft Foods to the Alma Piston Co. of Alma, Mich...
...industry (750,000 employees), grew on a chain reaction of defense and commercial contracts. As the year neared its end, the commercial jet age was dawning. The U.S. grabbed the lead in the production of the new 575 m.p.h. airliners just as it had led the world in piston-engined planes. From 13 airlines, both U.S. and foreign, Boeing already had orders for 72 jets and Douglas had signed contracts...
June. Paul Tillich will turn down the presidency of Harvard to become a speech writer for Billy Graham. The Board of Overseers will deny plans for an eighth house while construction proceeds. The Lowell House bells will play Professor Piston's arrangement of "Sixteen Tons." Polly Adler will deny that there is a new house at Harvard. Liberace will volunteer to lecture at Harvard, claiming "I'm sure they'll love...
...general manager. Since he had reached retirement age (65) two months ago, Captain Eddie could have stepped out and collected about $30,000 yearly in pension and consultant's fee. But Eastern is well into the biggest expansion program in its history ($350 million for fleets of new piston, turboprop and jet airliners), and wanted to keep Captain Eddie around to handle...
Turbine Auto. General Motors Corp. has built a four-passenger successor to its experimental gas-turbine car, the Firebird. The Firebird II's engine, said President Harlow Curtice, "gives promise of being able to operate with substantially the same economy as present-day automotive piston engines." Instead of wasting the tremendous blast of heat that comes out of the back of the engine, the Firebird recaptures about 80% of it by means of a heat exchanger, uses it to raise the temperature of intake air and thus improve combustion. G.M. does not plan to produce the titanium-bodied Firebird...