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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...agree with Winston Churchill," said Vannevar Bush, "that our possession of the bomb has been the only deterrent to Russian aggression." Dr. Bush predicted that-with faster jet planes, proximity fuses and other developments-Russia would eventually build such a defense that the U.S. would have difficulty in delivering the bomb to any primary target. He added: "When the time comes that we can't get at primary targets, we must have some other means of stopping Russian aggression." An armed force of 3,500,000 would not be enough, he said, adding: "It can't be done...
Although the death rate of every age group in the U.S. has been declining steadily since 1940, U.S. men are still dying off faster than women, said the National Office of Vital Statistics last week. In the last decade, the death rate for the female population decreased 13%, while the rate for males decreased only...
...inherited from an uncle, Landon arranged for the recording of four rarely heard Haydn symphonies by the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, led by young U.S. Conductor Jonathan Sternberg. Then he hit a bonanza; he persuaded a friend to invest $13,000 in the Haydn Society, assuring him it would "pyramid faster than Florida real estate." With his bonanza money, he hired a photographer and a musicologist, sent them up & down Austria, Germany and Hungary collecting and microfilming Haydn manuscripts. He also recorded the Nelson Mass, which sold 5,000 copies, put the society...
...profits of the auto industry were big enough to absorb increases in wages and raw materials. It was true that the profits of some auto companies had been enormous. But they were big largely because of capacity production. With big cuts in auto production ahead, profits would drop far faster than the actual reduction in volume. In short, the Government's new venture into price control gave businessmen little confidence that the present control program would be a success...
...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...