Word: probe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ford Motor Co.-whose Aeronutronic Division has contracts worth $40 million for an antitank missile, multipurpose booster rocket, and the outer casing of a moon-probe vehicle-recently bought the $400 million-a-year Philco Corp., mainly for Philco's space-age electronics business (prime contractor for the Army Signal Corps Courier communications satellite, tracking and command equipment for the Discoverer satellite...
Winston, an English major, will receive the $1,000 award jointly with Franklin J. Kosdon of M.I.T. for their invention of a solid rocket propellent. The project was part of a long-range plan to construct and launch a probe rocket intended to carry an instrument package thirty or forty miles into the atmosphere...
...degenerated. The upkeep was staggering-up to $6.000 a day just to run San Simeon-and a waning public appetite for vulgarity in journalism had turned the Hearst papers into anachronisms, with little experience in what the new reader wanted. In 1937 a team of horrified accountants, assigned to probe Hearst's 94-corporation maze, discovered that The Chief was $126 million in hock. Neither Hearst nor his papers ever recovered from their retrenchment...
Pushing ahead with its gambling probe (TIME, Sept. 1), the Senate Subcommittee on Investigations got satisfaction of a sort out of Thomas F. Kelly Sr., boss of a Chicago race-wire service, who was helped into office by the likes of Jacob ("Little Jack") Guzik. Anthony ("Tough Tony") Accardo. and Murray ("The Camel") Humphreys. Charging that one of Kelly's underlings had been driven to a suicide attempt by efforts to prevent him from testifying, the subcommittee chairman, Arkansas Democrat John McClellan, wondered aloud if the bulky, balding Chicagoan were not "the lowest scum of humanity...
Beginning a probe into the scope of U.S. gambling, the McClellan subcommittee found itself fascinated by the gimmicks that technical ingenuity has brought to the play of cards and dice. One knowledgeable witness was beefy, sweaty Paul Karnov. 48, co-owner of Chicago's moneymaking ($400,000 in gross sales last year, with an $86,000 profit) K. C. Card Co. Karnov introduced himself as "a manufacturer of perfect dice"; but he admitted that he devoted 21 pages of his catalogue to what he blandly called "trick dice or gaffed dice." Growled Arkansas Democrat McClellan: "The more...