Word: portsmouth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...machine), pasted leads to the women's abdomens, got recordings of electrical impulses that indicated the number of fetal hearts. The method, they noted, is far safer (for both mother and children) than X rays. Source of the data: servicemen's wives at the U.S. Naval Hospital, Portsmouth...
JEFF MANLEY Portsmouth, Ohio...
...busy parlaying what he salvaged from the Depression into a second fortune even bigger than the first. With the financial help of RFC, Eaton diverted an Ontario river and drained a lake to get his huge Steep Rock iron-ore mine working, went back into steel by forming Portsmouth Steel Corp. with holdings in Detroit Steel and Cleveland-Cliffs Iron, helped that other great RFC beneficiary, Henry J. Kaiser, bankroll his ill-fated auto venture. Then, at a critical moment, Eaton backed out of a deal to underwrite $11.7 million worth of new Kaiser stock. (The court fight lasted four...
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...family, he turned naturally to photography. He became a hustling freelancer who got a beat on the Baltimore fire of 1904 by driving a farmer's wagon through police lines. The next year he was pool photographer at Teddy Roosevelt's Russo-Japanese peace conference in Portsmouth, N.H. "You really had to push to get shots in those days," recalls Rosy. "The other guys would pull your slides or put chewing gum on your lenses...