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...reports piled up, more & more scientists agreed. Hams, who have seen this sort of thing happen before, realized that the "useless" radio bands might soon be so valuable that their slice would be drastically trimmed. By last week Bureau of Standards scientists, who are now sure that V.H.F. reflections are no freakish accidents, were more convinced than ever that V.H.F. will provide a vast new frontier for commercial broadcasts...
Increased production, sales and prices raised Anglo-Iranian's net profit in 1950 to $94.5 million (v. $51.6 million in 1949), the biggest ever earned by a wholly British corporation. Despite the nationalization trouble, stockholders will get their regular 30% dividend* or 84? a share. Iran's slice for 1950 was $45 million in royalties. If Iran had accepted the company's 1949 proposal to increase royalties, Iran's 1950 royalties would have been $94 million. This year, said Sir William, under a new proposal for a 50-50 profit split, Iran would have received about...
Chet Nichols pitched the Boston Braves to a dramatic 4-3 victory over Brooklyn today to slice the Dodgers' first-place National League lead to a half-game over the pressing New York giants...
...Professional Golfer Betsy Rawls, 23, of Austin, Texas, the Women's National Open, with a 72-hole total score of 293; in Atlanta. In third place with a 299: veteran Professional Mildred ("Babe") Zaharias, who only last month helped cure Winner Rawls of a fast-developing slice. ¶ Choate Webster, 26, of Lenapah, Okla. and his horse Popcorn, permanent possession of the $5,000 Sam Jackson silver trophy; at the Pendleton, Ore. Roundup. For the third year in a row, Cowpoke Webster topped the field in steer roping, calf roping, and bulldogging, became the first cowboy to retire...
...such as men's suit makers, who had been threatening price rises, now considered cuts in their lines for next spring. U.S. carpet men, loaded with big inventories, have cut prices 20% since spring, and last week the biggest of them, Bigelow-Sanford, announced a third-round 10% slice...