Word: armours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many obscure inventors, Marvin Camras, who developed the Wire Recorder, benefits directly from its production. Stocky, shy, 27-year-old Researcher Camras now gets a 25% royalty on each set. Current production is three handmade sets a day, turned out by Camras and six associates of Chicago's Armour Research Foundation, but General Electric production is scheduled to begin in about three months...
...there were a champion U.S. blood donor, a Pittsburgh truck driver, Russell O. Armour, would appear to be it. Last week he gave his 41st pint in 42 months. Sometimes he has had to use fictitious names, since the Red Cross will not knowingly take blood from anyone oftener than once every two months. Armour has altogether been drained of about three times as much blood as he has in his body at any one time. His weight has stayed the same: around...
...these words British Commando Officer Lieut. Colonel Robert Henriques describes the opening of the Commando raid which is the core of his unusual novel. As in his earlier No Arms, No Armour (TIME Jan. 15, 1940), Colonel Henriques' interest goes far beyond the surface mechanics of British army life...
...spies out of the capital. The Government had limited Axis diplomatic-code cables to 100 words a day, and the Argentine press played up testimony on the activities of the spy ring which left no doubt in the minds of Argentines. The well documented memoranda of U.S. Ambassador Norman Armour (TIME, Nov. 16) seemed to have been taken seriously and in good faith...
Meanwhile a flock of knotty problems were whirling about OPA offices, keeping the enforcement staff in a tizzy. Swift's price ceiling for beef turned out to be 21½ ? a pound; Wilson's, 21?; Armour's, 20½ ?. Obviously such a disparity could not last long, for no butcher will go on indefinitely paying Swift 1? a pound more than Armour just because that differential happened to exist on the date meat prices were frozen last March...