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MCDONNELL Aircraft Corp. grounded its Demon jet fighters for which the Navy has placed large orders, while it investigates three test-flight accidents. One plane exploded in midair, another landed with a dead burner, and a third had a fire in the tail section, all in nine days. Pilots escaped serious injury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: TIME CLOCK, Mar. 29, 1954 | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

...across the street from The Lucky Pawnbroker's Exchange. Built in 1902, and used as a white school until 1928, Shaw has an L-shaped playground too small for a ball diamond, a welding shop turned into a makeshift gymnasium, a science laboratory fitted out with a Bunsen burner and a bowl of goldfish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SUPREME COURT: The Fading Line | 12/21/1953 | See Source »

This week Betty will have some new products to display. One is a range which will preserve even the newest bride from cooking disasters. An "electronic-eye" thermostat, controlled by the heat of the cooking pan, automatically turns off the burner when the water boils away or the food begins to scorch. Westinghouse's new refrigerator has a "magic door" which pops open at a finger touch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Atomic-Power Men | 3/2/1953 | See Source »

Agudelo and Graduate Nurse Maritza Gonzalez, 23, had set up three inoculation stations around the village, each manned by a vaccinator-a girl who had taken six months of public-health training. Each vaccinator unpacked an alcohol burner from her black bag, sterilized a batch of needles and syringes, and went to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Lifesaving Stings | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

...York began to erupt with one scandal after another concerning his administration. His closest political sidekick, James J. Moran, was found guilty of engineering a huge fire department shakedown of oil-burner dealers-a shakedown which netted millions. Convicted Brooklyn Bookie Harry Gross told of paying off whole platoons of New York cops during the O'Dwyer era, and charged that Moran had once called a pre-election meeting of O'Dwyer and the city's top bookies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Lucky Billo | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

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