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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...received a special B.U. release: "A gigantic bean pot . . . was unearthed on the banks of the Charles River yesterday . . . Prof. Albert Morris . . . expert on anthropology . . . declared that the bean pot was definitely authentic and 'at least 50 years old . . .' " Following the sound rule of never trying to make a chump of a city editor, Wood also candidly tipped the city desks that it was just a polite hoax...
Open for the Best. President Baker's streamlining did not stop there. To perk up his faculty, he sent some of his professors off for a year of extra study at Harvard. ("What's he trying to do," some Ohioans wondered, "make this a Harvard on the Hocking?") He hired others from such universities as Columbia and Chicago. He searched like a talent scout for the best men he could find to fill the vacancies in the colleges of fine arts, applied science, education and commerce. He left no doubt of his plans: "We are building a quality...
Announcing that CBS was eager to license every TV manufacturer in the U.S. to make equipment based on "CBS color inventions," Stanton struck a body blow at the recalcitrant manufacturers. He suggested that his listeners may want to wait six months before buying a new TV set. By waiting, said Stanton, "you may save some money and you will have a self-contained set with built-in compatibility and built-in color. On the other hand, if you buy an ordinary black & white set now, you will be able to enjoy the black & white programs being broadcast...
...National Production Authority, which had imposed a sweeping Defense Order (DO) priority system only two weeks ago to make sure that there would be enough steel for arms orders, last week decided that it had acted too hastily. It relaxed the order. NPA feared that the hazy DO system would overload some companies with arms orders, thus delay deliveries, and bring spotty civilian shortages. To spread the load more evenly, NPA announced that no company need accept DO priorities in any one month for more than 15% of its carbon steel capacity, or 25% of its special alloy steel...
...freezing December night in 1928, a weird-looking little monoplane called "the Doodlebug" took off from a Milwaukee airfield and headed hopefully in the general direction of New York City. Designer-Pilot James S. McDonnell Jr., then 29, hoped to make aviation history by a daring night flight. Ha also hoped to prove that his plane was the safest in the air, thus get enough orders to start manufacturing the air "flivver." But he had scarcely cleared Milwaukee before the engine began flying apart. By a well-executed dead-stick landing in a farmer's field Pilot McDonnell saved...