Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Executive Director Frederick Bell of the National Auto Dealers asked Federal Reserve Chairman William McC. Martin to join him in asking Congress to restore the old wartime Regulation W, which until 1952 required 1/3 down payment for autos, no more than 18 months to pay the balance. Martin was cool to the idea, but Bell wants the Government to slap on such controls again...
From the first bell Archie moved purposefully toward Target No. 144, despite the fact that Challenger Olson's jabs and hooks took the first round on points. In round two, Moore set the pace, unlimbered his 8-in. edge in reach, stung Olson with a hard jab, left uppercuts -the beginning of the end. After only 1 min. 19 sec. of the third round, Archie shot a walloping right, then two paralyzing short left hooks to Olson's jaw to deck Bobo cleanly for a count...
...practice, reporters got less and less news at the Pentagon. When Wilson named R. (for Richard) Karl Honaman, 59, as his new information chief, newsmen were even more concerned. He had never been a newsman, and what press experience he had gained was as Director of Publication for the Bell Telephone Laboratories. His only recent Government experience was as a censor for the Department of Commerce. By last week, newsmen's complaints about Honaman and the news brownout at the Pentagon prompted the congressional probe...
...When Bell Telephone Laboratories announced its silicon solar battery (TIME, May 3, 1954), it fired the imaginations of the science fictionists, and the solar system was soon abuzz with solar-powered space ships. Trimming their silicon sails to catch the sunlight, spacemen used the electricity generated by the batteries to push themselves from planet to planet...
More practical imaginations were fired too. Last week National Fabricated Products Inc., a Chicago electronics manufacturer, announced that it has had more than 500 inquiries about the silicon batteries which it has just started making commercially under license from Bell Lab's parent company. Western Electric. Inquiries have come from industrial labora tories all over the world, including India...