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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rita Hayworth, who only a fortnight ago had been chosen Embroidery Queen of 1948 by the Embroidery Merchants Association, was voted Dish of the Year by the waiters at the Concord Hotel of Kiamesha Lake...
Hatmaker Hoyt was in a sulky instead of a saddle strictly by accident. Several years ago, he bought a saddlehorse named Louis Cobb, which had been a trotter. Just for the fun of it, he decided to put him back in a sulky. After four victories, Driver Harrison Hoyt was a wholehearted harness horseman (he even named a hat the Louis Cobb). He began to buy harness horses. At a Harrisburg (Pa.) yearling sale two years ago he paid $2,600 for a bay horse named Demon Hanover and got a bargain...
...winters ago the Babe went to the hospital. He was desperately ill-cancer-and sport editors everywhere prepared obituaries. But he got back on his feet. Ghostly but smiling, he was well enough to attend a Babe Ruth Day at Yankee Stadium. The Babe said a few words before a damp-eyed throng of 58,339. His speech was piped into baseball parks the U.S. over...
...fortnight ago, AEC took another step. To coordinate AEC's major technical programs, it picked as its deputy general manager Production Expert Carleton Shugg, onetime general manager of the Hoboken and Brooklyn divisions of the Todd Shipyards Corp. and for the past year the manager of operations at AEC's Hanford plant...
Daniels Pile. Admittedly, the Manhattan District had been over-optimistic in its prediction. When it plunged into the power project two years ago, no one had made more than a start on any of the major technical problems. Skilled scientists and industrial engineers were at a premium. But the Army had a mild, sharp-nosed little chemistry professor named Farrington Daniels, who took on the job of designing a full-sized nuclear reactor to produce power. By mid-1947, Daniels and his team were well into the vast problems confronting them. They reported that the basic difficulties should be solved...