Word: rodding
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...Boathouse. For Acoustica's gangling Chairman Robert L. Rod, 40, the Atlas contract is the climax of five years of building up his ultrasonics business from a shop in a Long Island boathouse to a leading position in ultra-high sound systems (TIME...
...reason that small businesses do not land contracts more often, argues Rod, is that they do not find out what the military services want and then develop the products. Instead, they go to the Small Business Administration and plead their smallness. Rod set out aggressively to cultivate younger officers in the Pentagon, to find out service needs, and in 1956, the Air Force asked Acoustica if it had any ideas for the Atlas. Rod thought that the sensor would be just the thing. To get on the master bidders' list of defense contractors for other company products, he inundated...
nerf (hot-rod jargon)-to push with another...
...rod jargon)-conceited type
...ceremony, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences handed highest acting honors to two foreigners for their U.S. television debuts. The toppers: Sir Laurence Olivier in Talent Associates-NBC's The Moon and Sixpence, Ingrid Bergman in NBC's The Turn of the Screw. To Writer Rod Serling went his fourth Emmy for his Twilight Zone series, which he also narrated...