Word: exploitation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tomorrow" pushed its sales of major appliances up 15% v. a 4% drop for the industry, rewarded Executive Vice President Mark W. Cresap Jr., 47, one of "Shape's" prime movers, with the presidency; longtime Boss Gwilym Price remained chairman. Every industry looked for new competitive talent. To exploit new markets at home, John L. Burns, 49, took over at Radio Corp. of America as Frank Fosom neared retirement; with more exploration abroad, William Whiteford stepped up to replace Gulf Oil's retiring Boss Sidney A. Swensrud. And when General Dynamics Chairman John J. Hopkins died...
...midget-car giant, Fiat. It was Innocenti's second big challenge to Fiat. The first he won handily. He maneuvered Fiat out of its share of a joint Fiat-Innocenti contract to build a $342 million Venezuelan mine-to-mill steel complex on the Orinoco River to exploit a nearby mountain of high-grade (up to 60%) ore. Innocenti left Italy a year ago, planned to spend a few days looking into the Venezuelan prospects. The more he looked the better he liked what he saw; after five months he told the Venezuelan government that he could...
...Commanding General Thomas S. Power tapped strapping (6 ft. 4 in., 225 Ibs.) Major General David Wade, 47, SAC chief of staff since mid-1956. A veteran bomber pilot, Louisiana-born General Wade saw Air Force duty in two wars, but he carried out his most daring exploit on the ground: stationed in Japan during the Korean War as commander of a B-29 wing, he won the Soldier's Medal for plunging into the burning wreckage of a fighter plane and hauling the pilot to safety...
...ability to get his planes into the air fast is one of Tommy White's methods of exploiting the potentialities of the Air Force to the fullest to meet the new day's threats. There are other ways to make the most of airpower, and the U.S. is aware of all of them. A year ago, when the Russians threatened to send volunteers to exploit the Suez crisis, the U.S. sent Moscow a private hands-off warning -and sufficient SAC bombers took the air to make the warning effective. The Russians quit talking about volunteers...
This exhibition of lithographs and woodcuts is especially interesting in its implicit commentary on each artist as creator and technician over and above whatever medium he may exploit at a given moment...