Word: tools
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...book will serve Talmadge as a very handy campaign tool. After one week it had sold out its first printing of 10,000 copies in Atlanta (it will be published nationally this week), and a second printing of 50,000 copies was on the presses. Asked what he thought of the book's reception, Talmadge beamed: "I think it's just fine...
Since the primary emphasis of the grammar school text is to present expository material, much of which is totally unfamiliar to the student, textbook publishing demands a highly precise and clear style. It is the patient grinding of an educational tool. The material covered, too, must be such that it will fill a school's requirements in a determined amount of time. The process of preparing a text becomes a long one, often requiring the work of several years by one or more trained authors...
...solid backlog of orders worth $313 million. Still another supersecret Air Force contract has just been awarded Hughes that will add millions more to the backlog, expand his Tucson plant far beyond its current capacity. All told, Howard Hughes now runs an empire of four companies (among them: Hughes Tool Co., 74% of T.W.A.) with more than 50,000 employees, an income of some $700 million annually and sizable profits. (Profits from Hughes Aircraft go into the Howard Hughes Medical Institute for research...
...over the U.S., the economy pushed ahead. For the first time in four months, reported the Agriculture Department, farm prices ended a decline and edged upward, about 1% between mid-August and mid-September. Machine-tool makers boosted their estimate of orders to $800 million for this year, a full $100 million above earlier predictions and a whopping $240 million above orders for last year. With the auto industry beginning to hit a good production stride, the nation's steel production climbed to 96% of capacity, almost 26% over the same week in 1954. Sales of new cars were...
...Silberstein's list in 1953 was Industrial Brownhoist Corp., a Michigan industrial-machinery maker which had more than $1,000,000 in cash reserves. The following year, Silberstein used Penn-Texas capital to buy up 51% of the stock in Connecticut's Niles-Bement-Pond, a machine-tool mak er with plenty of cash in the till. After a bitter proxy fight, Silberstein won control, made the company a Penn-Texas subsidiary. Last week he changed the name of the company to Pratt & Whit ney Co., the name of a company it had once absorbed.* With Colt...