Word: tex
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eight months. Shell Oil Co., which supplies 70% of the northern market, frankly hoped that business would return to normal after a while. Said a spokesman: "We will try to continue our operations in the north." But the two U.S. oil companies in Indo-China, Standard-Vacuum and Cal-tex, were not so hopeful. Stanvac closed down completely in Hanoi, was only doing a small business in Haiphong. Caltex took out everything movable. Said one veteran Caltex man: "Our experience in China, where we lost five huge refineries, taught us that there is no possibility of coexistence with Communists...
...puppy"), "Yesterday" ("When a pretty filly, Goldsmith Maid, was the belle of the sporting world"), "Under 21" ("Some wonderful things can be done with a boomerang"). Among the new magazine's regular contributors: Tennis Player Bill Talbert, Sport Writer Red Smith, Football Grandee Herman Hickman, Nature Humorist John ("Tex") O'Reilly, Novelist and Boxing Impresario Budd Schulberg...
...months almost everyone has known that Chrysler has been having its troubles (TIME, Jan. 25). Last week Board Chairman K. T. Keller and President Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert told the worst. In the first half of 1954, they reported, Chrysler sales dropped 42% to $1.1 billion, while earnings dipped 64% to $1.81 a share. Directors forthwith chopped the quarterly dividend rate in half, to 75?. Keller and Colbert indicated that third-quarter results would be no better, due to shutdowns for new model changes...
...swaying as Chief Test Pilot Alvin M. Johnston checked rudder and ailerons, bucking as he eased on the brakes. On an earlier taxi test, the 95-ton ship had snapped a landing-gear support, had to be sent back to the shops for repairs (TIME, May 31). Last week "Tex" Johnston was doubly careful; for five days the tests went on before he was satisfied that the plane was ready for flight...
Boeing Airplane Co.'s engineers lined the runway at their Renton, Wash, plant one sunny day last week to see their swept-wing 707, the first U.S. jet tanker-transport, get ready for her maiden flight. As they watched, Chief Test Pilot Tex Johnson gunned the four engines from an idling whine to a full roar, let the big jet sweep down the runway at 80 m.p.h., then eased on the brakes to test the 95-ton plane's ground response. After the first ground run, Tex gave his opinion: "A lovely ship." But Tex spoke too soon...