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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Electric Ham. Electrostatically smoked hams were put on sale by Indianapolis' Kingan Inc. First baked in infra-red ovens, the hams are then carried through smoke-filled tunnels in which meat and smoke are oppositely charged so that the hams electrostatically attract as much smoke in four minutes as they would in twelve hours in the smokehouses that are usually used, giving the hams a notably mild and sweet flavor. Price...
Discussion panels on the arts, government, education, finance, medicine, and science will provide most of the interest, Pratt said. "The panels attract a diversified type of audience that ordinarily might not be interested in attending an alumni reunion," he explained...
After eight months and 14 days of deliberation, Iran's Parliament last week passed a law to attract foreign capital and to help develop its unexploited resources. Although the specific details have not been drafted, the new law will offer foreign investors all the protection given domestic capital. Foreign businessmen will be allowed to transfer their net profit home without currency restrictions. If they liquidate their business, they can send both profits and capital home on a three-month notice, must keep only 10% of the total in Iran for six months to meet any possible claims. Finally...
Said Iran's Finance Minister Ali Amini: "If we want to attract foreign investments, we must give foreign investors better opportunities and secure them more profit. Otherwise, no one will care to invest in Iran...
Certainly the quality of the faculty is undisputed. The men invited to teach by the Extension Commission include leading professors from Harvard and Boston Area universities. Lowell's will requires that the stipends be high enough to attract good men, though it also insists that "a lecturer may be taken on trial, but no one shall be appointed for longer than four years, nor from sentiments of delicacy ought his appointment to be renewed when he becomes incapable or superannuated...