Word: trailerized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the Fruehauf trailer company skidded into the red, new management was brought in largely by Detroit Edison's Walker Cisler...
Delicate Tasks. The orbiting lab is still a drawing-board dream, and few details have been settled on for sure. It will be a pressurized cylinder, about 25 ft. long and 10 ft. in diameter -approximately the size of a small house trailer. It will be attached to the blunt heat shield of one of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's two-man Gemini capsules, and it will be heaved aloft by a hefty Titan III rocket, which, with its two solid-fuel boosters, develops as much as 2,000,000 Ibs. of thrust...
...back of the Harvard College Observatory stands a gray trailer truck which is to become the first mobile receiving laboratory for the University Space Radio Project. The Project, headed by A. Edward Lilley, associate professor of Astronomy, is building radio receivers for satellites and rockets to observe galactic, planetary, and terrestrial radio radiation...
...equipment being installed in the trailer has previously been used in the observatory building for receiving data from satellites in polar orbit. The Air Force has launched six such satellites for the Space Radio Project from Cape Kennedy, Fla., and Vandesburg Air Force Base, Calif...
...hard to straighten out a company, but to make it grow-that's another question," says President William Edwin Grace, 55, of Detroit's Fruehauf Corp. Five years ago, when Grace was called in to straighten out the nation's largest truck-trailer maker, Fruehauf was loaded with a $250 million debt and a big fleet of unsold trailers, and was heading toward red ink. Grace overhauled Fruehauf's loose corporate structure, set up a rigid system of divisions and committees copied from General Motors, and "gave people authority as well as responsibility to get their...