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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from quantity production, and the F104 program may be slowed down (TIME, Feb. 25). Curtiss-Wright is little better off. The company has big commercial orders for its 3,700-h.p. Wright Turbo Compound piston engine, but was slow to push into jets, has only one big seller in the relatively low-powered (about 7,000-lb. thrust) J65 engine for subsonic Navy and Air Force fighters and Grumman's lightweight supersonic F11 F-1 Tiger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Rough Engines | 3/25/1957 | See Source »

Last week, with 1956's figures all in, President Shanks announced that the Prudential had passed its biggest rival. Metropolitan Life, as the world's No. 1 seller of life insurance. In 1956 the Pru sold $8.2 billion worth of new insurance, now has a total of $58 billion worth of insurance in force. With assets of $13.3 billion, it ranks as the world's third largest company of any kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INSURANCE: Chip off the Old Rock | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

Liquor is a steady seller. "Everything goes at Christmastime," said a Varsity Liquor Shop clerk, pointing to the newly filled shelves. A Harvard Provisions salesman called Jack Daniels Sour Mash popular. "And we can't get enough of it," he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Merchants Attribute 'High Sales' To Wide Choice of Xmas Goods | 12/18/1956 | See Source »

Giant. In a big (3 hr. 18 min.), tough picture based on Edna Ferber's best-seller about Texas, Director George Stevens digs the rowels of social satire into the soft underbelly of U.S. materialism; with Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Dec. 10, 1956 | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

...Ideal Toy Co.'s "Revlon Doll" ($11.95 to $25) is a fully-developed young siren (proportioned to 34-23-34) whose outfit includes nylon stockings, earrings, a bra. The doll is expected to be Ideal's biggest seller since the "Shirley Temple" doll of 20 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: The Electronic Age of Toys | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

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