Word: flooring
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...memorial reading room to Joseph A. Schumpeter, former George F. Baker Professor of Economics, who died here last year, is being stocked and furnished on the top floor of Littauer. The books will come from Schumpeter's own library...
...curious crowd packed the paneled, 17th-floor room where three judges of the U.S. circuit court of appeals sat; many had to be turned away. The appeals arguments were technical and lengthy, 125 pp., for Alger Hiss's case, 66 for the Government. For three hours, Hiss's counsel and a Government lawyer made their points, answered questions from the court. Then court adjourned, and the Hisses silently made their way through the crowds to the street and disappeared, to endure another long wait. It will be months before the case is finally settled. The appeals court will...
...requests for information. A man from Munich, Germany wanted to build a hotel on the moon, and a bellhop from Marion, Ohio a skating rink on Venus. A New York fur broker asked about trapping rights; a radio cowboy saw a chance "to get in on the ground floor of radio business on Venus...
Finally, his rear gas tank hit and his controls damaged, Jones gave up. On the way back, Corporal Whittall had to lie on the floor of the cockpit, holding one of the controls in place with a knife. Jones knew he could not make it back to the Rochester, brought his craft down on the Han River in territory then still held by the Reds. Jones and Whittall took to their rubber life raft and reached an island in the river. As soon as the moon came up, they were rescued-by a helicopter...
...into Mexico to learn about the Spanish origins of U.S. cattle. He came back with some dramatic bullfight sketches and material for a fine first novel, The Brave Bulls (TIME, April 25, 1949). Later, he visited Southwestern ranches and Midwestern stock farms, spent a solid week on the killing floor at Swift & Co.'s Chicago stockyards. The resulting pictures struck Texans as not only good but mighty authentic. Looking at a Lea branding scene last week, one grizzled cattleman remarked: "You can smell the smoke from the burned hair...