Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rome University Ph.D., a pupil of famed Enrico Fermi, Physicist Pontecorvo fled Italy in the 1930s to escape Mussolini's Hitler-inspired antiSemitism. He spent some time in France and the U.S., finally settled in Canada, where he became a British subject and an important researcher at the Chalk River atomic project. Eventually he made his way to Harwell, where he rose to the post of chief scientific officer. Like many a colleague, he was an associate (in Canada) of Dr. Allan Nunn May, later convicted of passing atomic information to Russian agents; and an associate (in Britain...
...been kicking around the company almost since it was founded. "How could we miss it?" asked Stevens. "The phrase is even in the dictionary and at least 80 songs have been written with that title." The slogan was used on place cards called "Happy-Go-Luckies" in the early 1930s and on a few posters in 1937. But American did not plug it hard, for a reason baffling to non-admen: American simply did not think it was very good. Nevertheless, for years the company has received scores of letters* a month suggesting it. American Tobacco has finally decided...
...Official Army sources have now identified "Seoul City Sue" as Mrs. Ann Wallace Suhr, a former American Methodist missionary teacher, who left the mission in the 1930s to marry a Korean leftist. Missionary ex-colleagues believe that Mrs. Suhr broadcasts "under duress" and is "trying to save the life of her husband, and probably her own as well, by broadcasting for the Communists...
...Chicago nightclub circuit of the 1930s knew Lou Reynolds as a handsome glib master of ceremonies who used to wow the customers with his own parody of My Blue Heaven. Lou Reynolds' real name was Louis Sebille, and that was the name he used during World War II when he flew 68 combat missions as a Marauder pilot, wound up with major's leaves and a chest full of medals...
Lusty Infant. Such high-flying merchandising methods are commonplace in Dallas' fast-growing fashion trade. The industry got its big start in the mid-1930s, when the wave of U.S. unionization sent many a small garmentmaker seeking refuge in open-shop Dallas; soon it had an $18-million-a-year volume. It concentrated on sport clothes and other casual wear in big demand in mild-weathered outdoor-loving Texas. With World War II, the Dallas garment industry hit the big time; last year it provided jobs for 10,000 and produced a sales volume of $60 million...