Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intercontinental jet bombers, then let fly at supersonic speed at ranges of 100 miles or more to dump hydrogen warheads onto targets. Just about operational is the Air Force's 100-mile, 1,000-m.p.h. Bell Rascal, already in pilot production. North American's Project WS-131B is an experimental supersonic hydrogen-warhead item with a 350-mile range. And Convair's new supersonic 6-58 jet bomber carries a B58 Pod that can be used, among other things, as a powered air-to-ground missile or a free-fall hydrogen bomb...
...option to buy the land from the White estate exists, held, coincidentally enough, by Mr. John Briston Sullivan. J.B. Sullivan has purchased this option on the land, and would undoubtedly exercise it if the plan materialized, forcing the MDC to purchase the area from him if the industrialization project were approved. It is an open question whether Mr. Sullivan's civic spirit will persist when it comes to setting the price at which the MDC will have...
...Research Project. In Courtenay, B.C., Herbert Emerson Wilson, 74, author of I Stole $16,000,000 and other works describing the futility of crime, was fined $200 for stealing $2 worth of meat from a chain store...
...plan that he hopes will make a big chunk of money for Fox in the future.Fox plans to convert a large part of its wide-open, 284-acre West Los Angeles production lot into a "Century City" with more than a score of skyscrapers and apartment towers. The project would eventually cost $300 million, bring a net income of as much as $36 million a year...
Cowboys & Oil. Fox intends either to build up the whole area through its Fox Realty Corp. or to develop 25% of it and sell off the rest to another developer for a capital gain. The moviemaker, which has still to raise the cash for the project, has started to dicker with at least five "interested" insurance companies, and one is considering putting up $50 million. Fox's lot-half of which it bought from oldtime Film Cowboys Tom Mix and Buck Jones, who used it to stable their horses-is the largest piece of underdeveloped real estate...