Word: shelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alarmed by the fact that U.S. colleges seem to be turning out only about half as many high school science and mathematics teachers as they did in 1950, Shell Oil Co. announced that it was starting a program called the "Shell Merit Fellowships for High School Science and Mathematics Teachers." Each year 60 talented teachers will be packed off, all expenses paid, for summer seminars at Cornell or Stanford. To make up for lost summer earnings, Shell is also shelling out a cash bonus: $500 for each fellow...
...Skymotive Terminal formally opens this week at Chicago's O'Hare Field, the first terminal of any size ever built especially for company planes, personnel and executive passengers. Traditionally orphans of the air, business planes get short shrift at most big U.S. airports; executives and guests, says Shell Oil's Chief Pilot Bob Porter, '"have to go through mud and weeds to some back-alley hangar." The Skymotive Terminal was so welcome that it was booked to capacity even before its opening...
...history, predicts President Henry Ford II. Though privately owned Ford never releases financial data, earnings will be well above 1954's estimated $200 million. One reason, says Ford: the company has spent $1.6 billion for expansion since 1946, has announced a $500 million expansion for 1956, will shell out another $500 million for still more plants...
...shell Love is thinking in terms of last year's varsity bow and two men, Art Hodges and Pete Hobbs, plus sophomores Nick Tilney and John Eilefson--and "anyone else who wants to make an issue of it," in the coach's words...
...their performances the men sang everything from Bach and Palestrina to "Fair Harvard." As the New York Herald's Paris edition commented, the Club had shown that there was something besides jazz in America. They also performed in many famous cathedrals, including a concert under the stars in the shell of Verdun Cathedral...