Word: toole
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif. As chairman and moving spirit of giant Lockheed. Bostonian Gross equipped the armed forces with aircraft and weapons ranging from the P-38 and the Constellation to the Polaris missile, also furnished the U.S. with its most famed cold war intelligence tool...
...again, queries went out in all directions. It turns out that in four years, business games have won much acceptance, though there was widespread reluctance to concede how seriously such competitions as Role Playing and In-box are taken. Corporation executives often dismissed them as just one training tool among many, but the people "invited" to play the games are not so sure. Contributing Editor Marshall Loeb, who wrote this week's story, came out of the experience convinced that "one of the beauties of the journalism business is that they don't test...
Heart of TWA's case is the charge that Hughes tried to force TWA to use Hughes Tool Co. as a middleman on all its jet purchases. To begin with, TWA purchased 20 Convair 880s from Hughes Tool rather than directly from the manufacturer. General Dynamics. Next, charges the TWA complaint, Hughes tried to coerce TWA into agreeing to buy from Hughes Tool 13 Convair 990s (which Hughes had already contracted to buy from General Dynamics). When the Tillinghast team decided instead to buy Boeing 707s, Hughes allegedly sought to queer the deal by warning Boeing that its contract...
...Return. By week's end, the air was turbulent with allegations and counterallegations. Hughes sought to have the TWA suit dismissed, charging that the lending institutions which now control TWA's finances were guilty of "self-dealing." In a supporting affidavit, Hughes argued that the Hughes Tool Co. actions of which TWA complains were approved by the Civil Aeronautics Board and hence exempt from the antitrust laws-"even if they were applicable...
...Britain will probably have to give somewhat less preferential treatment to Australia, Canada, India and the other Commonwealth countries. As Brit ain buys less from them, they will buy less from Britain. Already some Midwestern manufacturers believe that Canada may quickly open up to more imports from the U.S. tool and die industry. On the other hand, there will be stiffer competition in markets of the Commonwealth from such Common Market powers as Germany, France and Italy...