Word: takings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Apaches take care of the major. Mitchum takes care of the Apaches. By this time, at least 48 subplots are in sore need of resolution. Mitchum takes the only way out, crosses the Rio Grande again, leaving behind him a western that is more woolly than wild...
J.P.L.'s founders got a bigger boost in 1939. when the National Academy of Sciences came across with $10,000 to develop rockets for helping airplanes get off the ground. In 1941 the first airplane took off with a J.P.L.-developed JATO (Jet Assisted Take Off) rocket. During World War II, J.P.L. was reorganized as a laboratory run for the Army by Caltech...
...biggest wheels reckon that one out of every five compact sales will come out of the standard models of Chevy, Plymouth or Ford. Atlanta Dealer Paul Timmers echoes what many a savvy salesman says: "The compacts are going to give us our Biggest year in 1960, but they will take away sales from our regular line...
...September of 1957, Ed Cole casually asked Red Curtice out to take a look at something new at the G.M. Technical Center. With a knowing wink, Cole lifted the canvas protecting the clay mockup. Red Curtice stood back, his blue eyes narrowing. Then he peppered Cole for two hours with questions. There were many obvious problems...
...often had to take a back seat to Cole's first love: the Cadillac engine. Even at parties Cole slipped out to his car to tinker with it. Once, working to tone down engine noise, Cole tiptoed into a party while everyone was standing around a piano and singing. He hauled out his longtime crony, Harry Barr, now Chevy's chief engineer. Said Cole, starting the car, "Listen!" Barr listened, said it sounded fine, and went back in to sing. But Cole stayed outside, listening to his engine music all night. "That," says Barr...