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...A.M.F. began to diversify with a vengeance, sending scouts around the country to find companies for sale. A.M.F. investigated more than 400 companies, bought nine, mostly by trading A.M.F. stock: Transducer Corp. (radar, electronics engineering), Union Machinery Co. (baking equipment), DeWalt, Inc. (radial arm saws and homecraft power tools), Cleveland Welding Co. ("Roadmaster" bicycle, second largest seller in the U.S.) Junior Toy Corp. ("Junior" tricycle, biggest seller in the U.S.), Sterling Engineering Co. Inc. (electrical relays), Float-Lock Corp. (drill press vises), Thompson-Bremer & Co. (lock nuts and washers, electrical terminals) and Leland Electric Co. (electrical motors and equipment...
...Picts grew slightly more sophisticated, they developed a better dwelling: a "wheelhouse" with radial, spokelike partitions supporting a massive roof of stone and turf. When the village was fully developed, the courtyard was crammed with five of these stone igloos...
...Chevrolet Division got the first installment of its biggest defense order: a contract to produce jet engines for the Air Force. Production site: an idle plant at Tonawanda, N.Y., where Chevrolet turned out 60,766 Pratt & Whitney radial engines during World...
...reduce the danger of clotting. Then he wheeled the infant into the operating room. He thrust a hollow needle into a vein in its left ankle, began to drip in the donor's blood. When he had dripped in 100 cc, a safe margin, he nicked the radial artery in the baby's right wrist, attached a tube, let the baby's blood drain out. To keep it flowing freely, he injected anti-clotting heparin...
...driven home to their town, groped in their memories for the dates when this or that old landmark disappeared in a blockbuster's blast. Now even the put-put engine of a light plane sent shuddering children racing to their mothers. Cautiously, jerkily, the troops moved down the radial boulevards...