Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Director William (The Best Years of Our Lives) Wyler ($432,000) and Bing Crosby ($325,000). Betty ("Legs") Grable, with a tidy $299,300, was the top moneymaker among U.S. women (trumpeting husband Harry James did $100,036 worth of breadwinning in the movies alone). Automaker Charles E. Wilson (General Motors) made $337,193, and the late super-Huckster George Washington Hill (American Tobacco...
...were a convenient explanation for other things they did not understand. For instance, when an atom throws off particles, it kicks back like a firing gun. The energy of the particles and the recoiling atom can be measured accurately by studying the tracks of moisture they make in a Wilson cloud chamber. Theoretically, they should balance; but in many cases they do not. Why? Physicists assume that invisible neutrinos have been shot away, too, affecting the recoil of the atom...
...bureau chief for his nine-man news staff. Blimp-shaped Publisher Roy Roberts took intelligence reports from his Kansas City Star staff then retired to Suite 1206 at the Bellevue-Stratford to dictate his own stories. On the fringes were a few on-the-fringe journalists. Columnist Earl Wilson, Debutante Virginia Leigh and Socialist Candidate Norman Thomas (reporting for the Denver Post...
...Chosen to administer ERP through the Economic Cooperation Administration, was: 1. Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch. 2. Defense Secretary James Forrestal. 3. General Electric President Charles Wilson. 4. Herbert Hoover. 5. Studebaker President Paul Hoffman...
Prepared by The Editors of TIME in collaboration with Alvin C. Eurich and Elmo C. Wilson...