Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within seconds, the plane's Curtiss-Wright rocket engine-powerful enough to drive a Navy cruiser-cut in with a roar. Violently the X-2 shot forward. Everest brought up her nose and began an accelerating climb to 70,000 ft. There, under the deep-purple sky, he leveled off, fired up all the rocket power he had and set out for his goal: 2,500 m.p.h.. 850 m.p.h. faster than man had ever flown. The machmeter danced upwards-2.1. 2.2, 2.3. But something was wrong. Trouble in the X-2's engine was holding her down...
RESCUE PACT between Studebaker-Packard Corp. and Curtiss-Wright Corp. reached secretly last month (TIME, July 30), was finally made official. In addition to the expected provisions, e.g., the aviation company will run Studebaker-Packard under terms of a management contract, Curtiss-Wright revealed that it is negotiating a contract with West Germany's Daimler-Benz A.G. that will give Studebaker-Packard access to new German engineering developments and may ultimately result in the U.S. auto firm's distributing Daimler-Benz cars and trucks...
...General Education in an Age of Specialization" will be examined at the August 8 public session. Benjamin F. Wright, President of Smith College, and former Chairman of the Committee on General Education at Harvard; Howard Bartlett, Head of the Department of Humanities, and John Morton Blum, Associate Professor of Humanities both at M.I.T.; Bart J. Bok, Professor of Applied Astronomy at Harvard; and Lincoln Gordon, Professor of International Economic Relations at the Harvard Business School, will participate...
After six months of negotiations, Curtiss-Wright and Studebaker-Packard finally came to terms last week on "Operation Rescue." The two companies will not merge-at least not right away. But they will tie themselves together under a "joint program" agreement, with Curtiss-Wright running Studebaker-Packard and taking an option on enough Studebaker stock for a formal merger later...
...Nance will step down as Studebaker's chief executive, remain only as a consultant to the board of directors. Into his place will go Harold E. Churchill, 53, Studebaker's general manager, who has been with the company since 1926. But the real boss will be Curtiss-Wright President Roy T. Hurley, himself a veteran automan, who learned the fine points of the industry as Ford's director of manufacturing. Taking over Curtiss in 1949 when it was doing poorly, he cut costs and boosted production so effectively that the company turned a profit of $35 million...