Word: plugs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that paying spectators have a right to know what is going on. In addition, if such games as the recent contests with Tufts and Williams are so negligible, why schedule them in the first place? Such legitimate questions can be answered with a microphone, a loudspeaker, and an electric plug...
Guidance Problem. For advanced missiles, guidance is a more serious problem than propulsion. Two guiding systems are of obvious value for an ICBM, and both are being developed. One, under contracts with American Bosch Arma, AC Spark Plug and M.I.T., is "inertial guidance." Its heart is a subtle instrument that senses every force that acts on the flying missile, the enormous force of the rocket thrust and the delicate forces of crosswinds and yawing motions. This information goes to a computer (contracts with Burroughs and Sperry Rand) that figures out the missile's position, speed and direction...
...heartily approve of your selection. I criticize, however, the picture you ran of him sitting at his desk, next to a large brass cuspidor. If Mr. Curtice likes to indulge in a quiet chew of plug tobacco, it is all right with me, but the majority of people consider this a filthy habit...
...statistics. To begin with, the tricked-up Buick of the highest-salaried man in the U.S. is hardly noticeable among the bright new Buicks and Chevrolets along Flint's main streets. Flint is the home of the main Buick and Chevrolet plants, the Fisher Body, AC Spark Plug and Ternstedt Divisions (G.M. auto hardware...
...insurance charter should have been issued only after he filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state. But U.S. Trust & Guaranty never took out a corporate license. Shoemake promised 5% returns on "certified drafts," claimed that these deposits were 100% backed with cash reserves and investments. To plug his company, he hired Columnist Drew Pearson on TV ("You can put your trust in U.S. Trust"). Last June, the insurance commission discovered that U.S. Trust & Guaranty could not account for $300,000 of funds taken in. Furthermore, it was $1.5 million in the red. Rather than expose the company...