Bloomberg BusinessWeek, June 2, 2014

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(1) Jonathan D Salant, Fighting for a Seat at the Grown-Ups’ Table.
www.businessweek.com/articles/20 ... itary-market-access
(Elon “Musk is aiming to force the Pentagon to reverse its contract with ULA [United Launch Alliance, a joint venture of Lockheed and Boeing[ to launch 36 military satellites. ULA says it costs about $225 million to put a satellite in space. SpaceX says its Falcon 9 rocket can do it for about $100 million per launch”)

My comment:
(a) summary underneath the title of print: Elon Musk wants the military to let his rocket company launch satellites. Safety tip: Don’t tell him no
(b) Read only the first two paragraphs, as well as the quotation above.

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(2) Paul M Barrett, The Case of Colt; Why the most famous name in firearms can’t shoot straight. (one of the three feature stories in an issue).
www.businessweek.com/articles/20 ... crisis-after-crisis
(paragraph 1: "The Connecticut River region has supplied the US with firearms since before it was a nation, and some of the best-known names in the industry remain in what’s known as Gun Valley. Smith & Wesson operates from a fortress-like building in Springfield, Mass. Sturm Ruger has its headquarters in Southport, Conn. Colt, the most famous of all the New England small-arms manufacturers, still makes handguns and rifles at a 22-acre facility in West Hartford. A giant blue sign with the company’s familiar 'rampant Colt' rearing horse insignia marks the entrance")

My comment:
(a) There is no need to read the rest.
(b) Connecticut River
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut_River
(the longest river in the New England)
(c) Smith & Wesson (founded in 1852 by Horace Smith and Daniel B Wesson to produce pistols)

* The English surname Wesson is a variant of Weston, the latter being composed of “Old English west ‘west’ + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement.’”
(d) Sturm, Ruger & Company, Incorporated (founded by William B Ruger and Alexander McCormick Sturm in 1949)
(e) Colt's Manufacturing Company (ounded in 1855 by Samuel COLT)