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...days, a walkout of 7,500 workers at the Bendix Aviation Corp. in South Bend, Ind. had strangled production of military jet engines, was also slowly throttling the flow of spare parts to the Berlin airlift. Last week Air Secretary W. Stuart Symington stepped in, invited the United Auto Workers' President Walter Reuther and Bendix President Malcolm P. Ferguson down to Washington to face each other (though both live in Detroit, they had never met). After an all-night session at the Pentagon, they came to terms. Bendix agreed to withdraw a $2,000,000 damage suit against...
...require permanent plumbing fixtures, thus abolishing installation costs running to $125 on current models. G.E. had also eliminated a soaking gadget on a new-model automatic washing machine, thereby saving the buyer $70 (price: $299.50). After two years of experiments and a $2,500,000 outlay for development, Bendix Home Appliances, Inc. introduced a completely new automatic washing machine for $179.95-$70 under its cheapest old model...
Streets of Laredo (Paramount) spins a drawling Technicolored yarn about three Texas badmen who are buddies. Two of them (William Holden and William Bendix) eventually go straight and get jobs as Texas Rangers. The third, MacDonald Carey, goes right on rustling cattle and robbing banks. All three, in one way or another, get romantically entangled with a pale-lipped chit of a cowgirl (Mona Freeman) who takes a pretty nearsighted view of right & wrong...
These situations are naturals for a movie, and Crosby, who plays Crosby--I mean Hank Martin--makes capital of them. He is ably assisted by William Bendix as Sir Sagramore, a sixth century Chester A. Riley, and by Sir Cedric Hardwicke, the constantly harassed King Arthur...
Associate Dean Robert F. Watson '37 and a special administration committee made the decision after requests had been made by the Student Council and several House committees. Since the Gold Coasters were the first to ask for a Bendix, they were the House chosen for the one-year trial...