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...service was resumed on an emergency basis with bureau managers and staffers operating machines, some lines got snarled with teletype hookups of non-newspaper companies. In Des Moines, the Tribune got a phone call from the Watson Bros. Transportation Co. Said a baffled trucker: "We've got a column by Eleanor Roosevelt down here. What do you want us to do with...
...Babb about his background. "But it was plain," Babb related afterward, "that they already knew everything about me. So I wasn't sure what was up." Next day Babb found out. He was asked if he would like to be president of Unilever's U.S. subsidiary, Lever Bros.-a job which has been vacant ever since Lever Bros, and Charles Luckman parted company three months ago (TIME...
...reported last week, earnings for the first nine months of its current fiscal year soared to $49 million, up $15.5 million from last year. What impressed stockholders even more was that P. & G.'s earnings were climbing at a time when its biggest competitor, Lever Bros., was taking losses (TIME...
Toward the Touchdown. George can be used with GCA too. In one such system designed by Gilfillan Bros., Inc., a radar picks up the approaching airplane and automatically sends out coded orders to put it on the desired glide path. George translates the orders into the proper movements of the airplane's wheel and throttle, and steers the plane down toward the field. The system can keep track of six incoming airplanes simultaneously. If one of them has no automatic equipment, it can be talked down by voice...
Broadway arranged to buy northern California's Hale Bros. Stores, Inc., thereby forming a 15-store chain with combined sales of $88 million, the second biggest west of the Mississippi. (The first: Los Angeles' Bullock's, Inc.) The deal involves no cash: for $4.8 million of its own stock, Broadway will acquire control of eleven stores with a book value of $12 million, in San Francisco and four other California cities...