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Tompkins had discovered the Ferdinand side of Aught's complex personality. Outside of working hours, he likes people. He certainly hates other bulls. "In 1950, when I bought him," says Aught's owner, Washington Stock Contractor Joe Kelsey, "I tried putting him in with the other bulls. He tore into them. I tried putting him in a separate corral, but that didn't work either. Corrals with a low fence, he'd charge right through, and when I put him in an arena with a six-foot fence, he'd jump right over...
AEROSPACE. Increased defense spending and the stepped-up U.S. space program boosted earnings generally. North American Aviation, prime contractor on the Apollo mooncraft, increased its net 20% to $8.600.000. Long-suffering General Dynamics showed a gain of 157% to $10.7 million-largely because of tax credits resulting from its previous massive losses building commercial jet transports...
...tallan district in Wakefield, the son tallan immigrants. He started in the business as a hod carrier later a journeyman plasterer, established his own building firm during the session of the 30's, and by the age of 40 had completed his Horatio Alger drive as a millionaire contractor...
Money in the Payload. Much of the credit for the fact that Lockheed has become the nation's No. 3 defense contractor (behind General Dynamics and North American Aviation) belongs to the late Bob Gross. In 1946-long before Sputnik -he swung Lockheed into the missile-and-space work that now brings half of its sales. Three-quarters of the payload orbited by the U.S.-including the Discoverer, Midas. Samos-has been lifted by Lockheed's Agena space booster. Lockheed's Polaris missile is the Sunday punch of the nation's fastest-growing defense system, last...
This is simply not true, and Rockefeller should realize that the shelter program, a contractor's dream, invites exactly the type of misbehavior that Carlino so plainly has exhibited. As Lane said in self-defense (for the counter-attack took its toll), the shelter bill was simply too important to be slammed on a legislator's desk for virtually automatic approval...