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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Washington, Rear Admiral Arthur C. Davis, Staff Director for the Joint Chiefs, was back on the job after recovering from an acute eye infection. "There I was-unable to use my eyes," he said. "I just listened to the radio all day. Soap operas! I never heard one before . . . What are we doing? We are raising a generation of morons. My God, I didn't realize what sad shape the United States of America...
Haydn Society musicologists turned detective to put the score together. Haydn composed the opera in London in 1791 when he was 59, on a commission from the Prince of Wales (afterwards George IV). On the day of the premiere, King George III, who was sponsoring a rival theater and tiffing with the Prince, closed up the Orfeo theater with troops. Haydn pocketed his ?300, forgot the opera for the time being. Landon found one score in Berlin's State Library, another in the Esterhazy archives of Budapest's State Library, but both were incomplete. At one point...
Saved by Curves. Present-day windows, says the CAA, are strong enough to carry present-day pressures, and at the comparatively low altitudes (18,000 to 20,000 ft.) now flown by airliners, a passenger is unlikely to be captured by a rush of air to a broken window. There has been one such accident, but it did not turn out too badly. An airline hostess was sucked to a window, but her hips were wide enough to stick in the frame and save her from being popped like a cork into the empty air.* The pressure difference (only...
Businessmen might be pessimistic about the future, but Wall Street took a cheerful view. Day after President Truman's mobilization speech last week, the market started out at a fast clip, with textiles and such war stocks as Grumman, Lockheed and Boeing leading the parade. In the short, half-day session, 2,020,000 shares were traded and both the rail averages and Dow-Jones industrials scooted up. Reason for the rise: after all the grim advance notices, the President wasn't nearly as tough about controls and cuts in civilian production as Wall Street had expected. Furthermore...
...start of this week, the market moved up at even a faster clip. In the biggest day's trading (4,490,000 shares) since the outbreak of the Korean war, the rail averages hit 76.01, up 2.63 in two days, and their highest point in nearly 20 years. The Dow-Jones industrial averages hit 231.03, up 6.33 points in two days, thanks chiefly to the scramble to buy oils, metals and aircraft stocks. A spectacular performer: Grumman Aircraft. After a two-for-one split, it soared from 22⅝ to 28¾ in four days...