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Remington was cleared of charges of Communism in 1949 by the top Loyalty Review Board. The Board's check-up came after Miss Elizabeth T. Bentley, a confessed former courier for an espionage apparatus, charged that in 1943-1944 Remington supplied her with War Production Board secrets...
After "fiddlin' and playin' " with designs for ten years, Dallas' Frigikar Corp. finally had what it wanted last week: a refrigerating unit which will cool an automobile. Fitting compactly under the hood and in the trunk compartment, the Frigikar apparatus will reduce a car's interior temperature from 100° to 70° in a matter of minutes. Price: a cool...
...medical plant is in a class by itself, almost no other university has x-ray apparatus so near its field. Rather than create a new category just for Dillon, the American Medical Association lists the medical room as a "First Class Industrial Clinic...
...since baseball managers found how much batting-practice work they could save a pitching staff. Last week, as was no doubt inevitable, one of the mechanical Matthewsons was set out to pitch a full nine-inning game. Moreover, it pitched for both sides. Wake Forest College, which calls its apparatus "Iron Mike," got eleven hits (three of them homers), waited out Iron Mike for two walks. North Carolina State, batting against machinery for the first time, got three hits, drew five walks. Final score: Wake Forest 8; State 0. There were no balks and nobody stole any bases", stealing against...
...already being gnawed by the political cancer that results when people fear to speak out. Stalin had a strong sense of the blighting effect. "We cannot do without self-criticism," he wrote. "We cannot, really, Alexei Maximovich. Without it [will come] immediate stagnation, rotting away of the apparatus, growth of bureaucratism, undermining of creative initiative in the working class...