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...protect its lion's slice of the British gasoline market from hard-driving competitors, Shell-Mex & B. P. Ltd., jointly owned marketing arm of the Shell group and British Petroleum, turned to an articulate advocate of the hard sell. In as the company's managing director went John Emerson Harding Davies, 45, youngest man ever to hold the post. A World War II major who credits the British Army with "giving me an opportunity to develop initiative," ex-Accountant Davies likes to spend his time with salesmen in the field, argues that many decisions that used to consume...
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...world's famed atom smashers. At the Lick Observatory at Mount Hamilton, Cal astronomers scan the galaxies. Thanks to Cal's engineers, California's farms are the most mechanized in the U.S. The university runs the atom-bomb city of Los Alamos, N. Mex. It owns ranches, apartment buildings, forests, hospitals, vineyards, movie studios and seven oceangoing ships. On its 25,877 acres, a man can freeze or fry without leaving the premises. The university employs 3,000 professors, parks 19,200 cars and offers 7,900 courses. This year Cal will cost $360 million...
...established a Raketenentwicklungszentrale for the German rocket buffs. Von Braun, then only 25, was put in charge of the technical side of the program. When the Reich collapses. Von Braun & Co. flee south to offer their secrets and services to the U.S. Army. Set up in White Sands. N. Mex., the rocketmen start plodding down the long trail of tests that leads at last to the launching of the first U.S. satellites...
...about 25?to 35? per 1,000 gallons for their water, and the Government's aim is to find a method that will convert brackish or salt water at the same price. Other plants in the program are scheduled to be built at Webster, S. Dak., Roswell, N. Mex. and on the East Coast...