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NUCLEAR MERCHANT SHIP, the world's first, will be built for U.S. by Louis Wolfson's New York Shipbuilding Corp. on a bid of $20,908,774. Keel for 587-ft. N.S. (for nuclear ship) Savannah will be laid next year, launching is set for 1959, and in 1960 the 20-knot, 10,190-d.w.t. vessel will start operating as "a floating laboratory to study nuclear power [in] commercial shipping...
...graceful, superbly theatrical manner, Lee Jeffries, perfectly cast as The Actress, goes to bed with the poet. "That's better than acting in damn silly plays," she breathes soon after their blackout. Still brilliant in her next scene, she is unfortunately confronted with a gawking performance by John Wolfson, who seems uneasy in his role as a slightly dimwitted, uneasy Count. The final scene, The Count and the Prostitute, is a step downward from the style of Miss Jeffries...
BIGGEST CONSTRUCTION contract ever awarded to a single company by Interior Department's Bureau of Reclamation is headed towards Louis Wolfson's Merritt-Chapman & Scott for Glen Canyon Dam on Colorado River in Arizona. Company submitted low bid of $108 million for dam, which will be 700 ft. high and 1,400 ft. long, generate...
Like two consulting doctors, Speculator Louis Wolfson sat down last week with American Motors Corp.'s President George Romney to see what could be done about the ailing auto company. After the conference Wolfson, biggest single A.M.C. stockholder (350,000 shares), announced that he had turned down a directorship because he is too busy with his other affairs. But he will keep on buying more stock, "based on Mr. Romney's confidence that A.M.C. will be operating profitably in early 1958." Wolfson committed himself to vote for Romney at the annual meeting next February, even sent Romney home...
Romney, in turn, scotched reports that Wolfson wants A.M.C. to drop its big-car lines, sell off its Rambler line to Chrysler. Instead, he emphasized, A.M.C. will go ahead with tooling and bring out a complete line of new designs for 1958. In addition, A.M.C. will "pursue a dynamic program of acquisition and further diversification," with the help of Wolfson, an expert in acquisitions...