Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Would Mrs. Sloane make it her specific job to represent Western Union's women employees and stockholders on the board? Certainly not. Said she: "I don't know why women are different from anyone else...
...sign over the door. Hoffman thought it looked like a good chance to get into the radio business. He raised $10,000 and bought the company (later changing the name to Hoffman Radio to avoid confusion with Mission Bell Wine). But Hoffman did not get a chance to make many radios then. World War II made him, instead, the world's largest manufacturer of kites. He turned out 300,000 "antenna-hoisters" used for the "Gibson Girl" transmitters installed on life rafts. He had two plants and was grossing $4,200,000 at war's end, when...
...Snyder, who had put three years of research and $250,000 into Unicel, hoped to change their old habits, was betting that the new car would eventually revolutionize freight car building. In a rearming U.S., which would need all the steel and all the freight cars it could make, Snyder had one big fact on his side: plywood is not nearly as scarce as steel...
...bacterial invasion. There are the little-understood platelets, which help in clotting. Besides these solids, there is the amber fluid (plasma), which contains a score or more different components, some already being used in medicine, others still in the research stage. To separate these various fractions, preserve them and make them available for medical use is a vastly complex process...
Sniff the Gas. In Carbon Dioxide Therapy (Charles C. Thomas; $5), Psychiatrist Meduna claims to have a possible answer: a few sniffs of the gas which puts the bubbles in soda water. This, according to Dr. Meduna, may make psychoanalysis unnecessary. And, he contends, it is wonderfully effective for anxiety, inferiority complexes and homosexuality, or such psychosomatic complaints as spastic colon, frigidity, impotence and stuttering...