Word: agent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with Matusow, but, when he was finally kicked out of the party in 1951, one of the two reasons given was that he was a contest cheater. The other-and the more pressing-reason was that by this time Matusow, having turned informer to the FBI, was an "enemy agent...
Died. Sir Edward Mellanby, 70, British authority on nutrition, onetime (1933-49) secretary of Britain's Medical Research Council, discoverer (in 1918) of Vitamin D; of coronary thrombosis; in London. In 1946 Sir Edward proved that Agene, the bleaching and aging agent once used in 80% of U.S. white flour, was injurious to the brains of animals and possibly of humans; was chiefly responsible for its banning by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration...
...Serge was manager of the tiny Banque Franco-Asiatique in Paris, which was the French financial agent for the Chinese government. Rubinstein discovered that a series of old, defaulted Chinese bonds were due to mature shortly, and quietly bought up a million dollars worth for $25,000. When the Chinese government forwarded more than a million dollars to cover interest payments on another series of bonds. Rubinstein simply paid off on the defaulted series, which rose automatically in value. "I had the bonds," he explained later, "and I had the money. I just paid myself off." For this kind...
...York Central and Pennsylvania railroads installed automatic control centers (see cut) for dispensing tickets in seven stations, including Philadelphia's 30th Street Station, plan other installations along their lines. A "ready sale"board, resembling a stock broker's quotation board, tells both customer and ticket agent what space is available for a one-week period on as many as 23 different trains. Then a special card, representing the passenger's choice of space, is passed through an electronic scanner that prints the Pullman ticket automatically. Elapsed time: two minutes. To accommodate customers ordering reservations from other locations...
Atlanta's Scripto, Inc. last week put a new pencil on the market that looks like a lead pencil but writes like a ball-point pen. The writing agent is a capsule of liquid graphite which can be erased, although not as quickly or cleanly as lead. Price: 49?; refill capsules...