Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Before Radiologist Quick can use the prize, Roosevelt will have to build a machine to handle it. Plans, already drawn by Physicist Gioacchino Failla, call for a derrick-like supporting apparatus in an underground chamber and a 3½-ton bucket of lead, mercury and steel to hold the radium and direct its energy in converging rays on deep-seated cancers. When the machine is finished some time next year, the hospital will ship the empty bucket to Belgium and have it loaded. Then the radium will be brought back to Manhattan and put to work...
Altogether, Landon has recorded 25 Haydn symphonies, six Masses, Haydn's most famed oratorio, The Creation, and some chamber works, with Mozart's neglected opera Idomeneo thrown in for good measure. With profits from record sales, the society has published the first of 63 volumes of Haydn's collected works. Landon (and seven other stockholders) can now survey a corporation which will gross $150,000 this year, numbers some of the world's outstanding Haydn authorities (including Denmark's Jens Peter Larsen, Boston's Karl Geiringer) on its advisory board. Nonetheless, the society...
...aeromedical laboratory at Oklahoma City, CAA man John J. Swearingen built a pressure chamber like an airliner's cabin, with seats and a window of thin plastic. He made dummies with the weight, center of gravity and articulated joints of an average human being. He seated a dummy next to the window and pumped air into the chamber to simulate conditions in a pressurized airplane flying at 30,000 ft.* Then he focused his movie cameras and broke the window...
When the clerk told him the three-day waiting period might be waived, he was delighted. He hurried Mildred to the chambers of Superior Judge Henry Clay Agnew and was given a pink slip. "Is that all?" asked the Earl, obviously rather astounded. "That's all," said the judge. Beaming, the Earl left, told newsmen he was now married, and departed with Mildred for a Tacoma motel which had been chosen as the type of nuptial chamber most suitable for one in the Earl's financial condition. "Her ladyship hasn't enough money for hotels," he explained...
...Dancer ... In Knoxville, Tenn., a Chamber of Commerce parade featuring Santa Claus was postponed because of heavy snow...