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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could easily build the Cobra to almost any response curve desired. Some of our first experiments had cartridges peaked at nearly 10,000 cycles. They did not give the fidelity of reproduction, did not make each instrument speak with its own natural voice, as did the curve finally adopted. This curve, measured on response to pure frequencies, peaks at a point slightly below 5,000 cycles, falls away, and then continues out flat to well beyond 10,000 cycles...
...united ... Germany must be united. . . . We repeat our determination to pay our reparations, and we are distressed that the Ruhr has now become a center of neurosis in international relations. . . . We recognize the necessity for the hundred percent destruction of German war industry. But we must be able to build up a constructive industry of peace...
Four million families needed a place to live. The Government, which had hoped to build 250,000 houses by the end of the coming winter, now felt it would be lucky to provide 40,000. Like Japanese everywhere, families were living chockablock; the average citizen had only six square feet of housing space. In Tokyo's Ushigome ward, authorities held a lottery to determine which of 19,000 applicants would get the 416 new houses. About 2,000, including women with babies on their backs, slept in the subway; others grubbed for a roof in rusty tin sheds, converted...
...with the Bank of America loan, Trousdale plans to build 8,000 rental units on 450 acres of it, along with a 26-acre super-shopping center. Eventually he hopes to build a hundred 13-story apartment houses on the rest of the land...
...talkative inventor named Henry Ford. They both thought that a Ferguson-designed tractor, which had a hydraulic mechanism to raise and lower a plow automatically, would revolutionize agriculture. It didn't-exactly. But in the process the Ford Motor Co. made 250,000 Ferguson tractors, helped build Harry Ferguson Inc. into one of the biggest U.S. agricultural equipment companies...