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Young Wings. Other U.S. helicopters now in Korea are four different types made by Bell Aircraft Corp., which has been making copters since 1945, has sunk $12 million into research and development. Bell tried to tap the commercial market for helicopters as executive transports, crop-dusters, mail-carriers, etc., but lost money. At $23,500 a ship, there were not enough buyers. The company now has a $75 million military backlog, is developing the tandem-rotored experimental XHSL-i helicopter. The Navy wants to equip it with radar, use it to hunt submarines...
...Prudential's President Carrol Mcteer Shanks, 52, this seemed like a fair price to pay for a new office in the Midwest, where Prudential hopes to tap the area's one-third of all U.S. farm incomes, the $30 to $50 million auto industry, the meat-packing industry...
...Harding's game-winning tap stunned the crowd of 1,800 which had watched the Crimson easily pile up a 45 to 35 half-time lead. Operating against the Blue's usual zone defense, the home team hit on its long shots and was occasionally able to work the ball under the basket to Ed Smith or John Stevenson. Harvard's first half shooting average was its best of the year--50 percent...
...Marine jump-off, the leathernecks were not losing any time. Corporal Ardrick Hammon of Alton, Ill., radioman for an artillery observer, slogged his way north, so loaded with fighting and communications gear that he could stoop to tie the flapping lace of one combat boot. He felt a tap on his shoulder, looked into a lean face under a pile cap with three stars and a paratrooper's silver badge...
...business-from 11 million ton-miles in 1946 to 26.4 million in 1949-they had trouble proving they could make it pay. Several times they had edged into the black only to groundloop into operating losses that totaled $2,440,000. If Earl Slick had not been able to tap his family's Texas oil millions, the airline probably would have cracked...