Word: commerciale
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Morton Sobell's "vacation" trip was sudden, indeed. He locked up his house in Flushing, N.Y. one day in June, left a brand-new 1950 Buick in the garage. Without even telling his employers that he was leaving, he bundled his wife, their two children and himself into a...
The first trial was a failure; Vonnegut's commercial silver iodide was too impure. He tried again with a few specks of pure silver iodide, which he evaporated from an electrically heated wire. At once the captive cloud in his cold chamber turned into snow. The merest smidge of...
Instead of exposing himself to deadly snakes to test the serum, Philpot bought rattlesnake and moccasin venom in powdered form. Then he went to work on mice. He found that a mouse could be injected with 2½ to 3½ times the lethal dose of viper venom, and still...
On the field, soldiers sweated to load planes which had flown in earlier with evacuees, and send them winging back to Tokyo. This is the Pacific airlift. Every day it flies some 100 tons of men and vitally needed munitions, medicines, etc. from Fairfield-Suisun, Tacoma and San Jose to...
Charles Luckman, who has been taking things easy since his departure from Lever Bros. (TIME, Jan. 30), went back to work last week. Still young (41) and ambitious, Chuck Luckman and Los Angeles Architect William Pereira formed a 50-50 partnership. Luckman graduated (University of Illinois '31) as an...