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...Farm-Machinery Maker Massey-Ferguson (TIME, June 15), organized Dominion Tar & Chemical Co. into a $340 million sales giant that makes everything from table salt to precast concrete, and built Dominion Stores into Canada's largest supermarket chain (350 stores). Argus also controls Canadian gold and iron mines, plywood and lumber mills, shopping centers, a satellite city, Canada's largest radio station (Toronto's CFRB) and Canadian Breweries (Carling's), the world's largest brewer of beer and ale. Total sales...
...Lamont took, in pelting rain and a 25-knot wind, had another distinction: it was the roughest weather Gretel had ever sailed in. Lamont had to pay for that passage too: he was ordered to help raise the main by winding in 400 ft. of wire on a portable plywood winch. By week's end, Lamont was happy to be all quiet on the Potomac...
...first of three, 30-mile heats around the wind-chopped lake, Miss Seattle Too, bounced, dug her nose into a wave, flipped end over end, and disintegrated into a heart-stopping cloud of spray, smoke and plywood. A Coast Guard helicopter plucked Driver Dallas Sartz from the wreckage, miraculously with nothing worse than a broken left leg. No sooner had the next heat roared away around the oblong course than another Seattle boat, Tempest, threw a connecting rod and burst into flames. The Coast Guard whirlybird dipped down to rescue Driver Chuck Hickling, but his boat was severely damaged...
Some 650 ft. below the hard clay surface of Nevada's Frenchman Flat, technicians carefully installed the device in a 6-ft.-high and 75-ft.-long chamber lined with plywood and floored with fine gravel. For a while a contrary wind sweeping across the area threatened to postpone the shot. Then the wind faded and the device was detonated. Standing on a mountain-top 57 miles away, observers could not hear the explosion. But they saw its effect perfectly: a great mass composed of thousands of tons of granite boulders, sand, clay, yucca trees, sagebrush, tumbleweed, and even...
...hydroplane "as lyrical as a fiddle in the sweep of its polished plywood...