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...interrogated him daily for six weeks. Before each session, the jailers softened him up by making him spend two or three hours in a tiny concrete cell in which he could not sit down, stand upright or lie down. "The box," said Ludig, "was illuminated by a very powerful bulb. [It gave] you a headache, and you were kind of blind after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Iron Heel | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

...bacause she only "half hears" him, a good thing considering the rot he talks about. doggedly he bears with her through exchanges like: "Molly, we can't stay here playing cards in the Lobster Bowl cocktail lounge until we're old." Molly (ingenuously): "If we got a biger light-bulb, we could play in the bed-room." That Elizabeth Ross and Logan Ramsey manage to give a hint of life to theses impossible roles in remarkable...

Author: By R. E. Oldensurg, | Title: In the Summer House | 12/4/1953 | See Source »

...Baby Bulb. General Electric introduced "the world's smallest" photographic flashbulb (1½ in. long, ¼ in. diameter), the M2, less than half the size of the company's midget No. 5 bulb. The new bulb is effective up to 15 feet, will be available next spring for 10?, or 3? less than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Nov. 30, 1953 | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

...Manhattan's rising real-estate values. Last week Rockefeller Center's Chairman Laurance Rockefeller pronounced a death sentence on the relatively young building. When NBC's lease expires next May, workmen will tear down the Center's vermilion doors, mahogany walls, its six-ton, 400-bulb chandelier, once the world's biggest. On the theater's site will rise a new $11 million, 19-story office building that will connect with the U.S. Rubber Co. building and bear the same name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REAL ESTATE: Exit Center Theatre | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

...order came from Federal District Judge Phillip Forman of Trenton, N.J., who had found G.E. and six other defendants* guilty of monopolizing bulb manufacture through control of patents. Judge Forman also ordered that 1) the defendants share all future patents with the rest of the industry, 2) G.E. and International G.E. stop discouraging partly owned foreign companies from competing in the U.S. lamp market, 3) all bulb agreements between the defendants be ended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Lights Out | 10/12/1953 | See Source »

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