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...Astin, an eminent physicist, took the stand and said that the "trace elements" were just impurities in the salts. But when Astin defended the bureau's findings on AD-X2, Committee Chairman Edward Thye, Minnesota's other Senator, pointed to a stack of orders for the battery dope. "That means more to me" he said firmly, "than the technical talk of a bunch of chemists ... If a good, hard-fisted businessman has used the product . . . and is fool enough to come up and place orders month after month, what is the matter with him? Or otherwise, what...
...Essex with a plenitude of details and a sober chronicler's lack of shock. Few whaling men had as tragic a time as the men of the Essex, but whaling, as Author Stackpole describes it in The Sea-Himters, was characteristically a dangerous, grim and dirty business. Stack-pole's book is a serious attempt to set down the round story of how it all started, and how for a few generations it made Nantucket rich and famous...
When he took over as the new chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, Washington Lawyer Edward F. Howrey looked aghast at the stack of documents (enough to fill a foot locker) that awaited his attention. Last week Howrey let it be known that he will ask the commission's staff to cut down the amount of material its chairman is supposed to read. Said he: "I had a nightmare the other night. I dreamed I was in a room stacked to the ceiling with files of official documents. I couldn't get out of the room until...
Radcliffe girls stack up quite well with Harvard...
...Ph.D. theses under Professor Gregory Baxter. Baxter at that time was studying events in outer space, and Nash's thesis became a study of the gases in meteorites. Today, one of the country's foremost gas analysts, Nash calls his unusual sorcery "Analysis of What Goes Up the Stack...