Word: carrier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...place the usual bills, letters, circulars, and postcards in the little cubbyholes. But sharp-eyed members of these Houses will note that for the first time in 22 years, the boxes will opened by a new man, and the hand under the uniform will be different. For veteran letter carrier Andy Corr is retiring after bringing Bellboys and Bunnies news from home for over 20 years...
...time during his 39 years and 3 months of total post office service, he knew Harvard men personally, and he and his addressees were the best of friends. "There has been a change in attitude," Andy laments. "Students don't get acquainted with the letter carrier any more." In the old days, he remembers, "they would be waiting for the letter carrier." But tossing his regrets for the past aside, the retiring postman admits that the student body has improved since the days when he first started to deliver mail to Harvard. "They seem to be more industrious boys today...
Payoff. To settle the suit, the defendants agreed to pay Zenith ten annual installments of $1,000,000 beginning Oct. 1. More important, Zenith got royalty-free licensing rights from RCA and General Electric on black-and-white TV equipment, including tubes. It got similar rights on common-carrier communications equipment from Western Electric and the Bell System. At Philco Corp., which in 1956 filed a still pending $150 million antitrust suit against RCA involving color TV patents, nobody was talking yet. But after Zenith broke the ice, RCA's patent pool seemed to be thawing at last...
...have to bail out below 1,000 ft. during landings and take-offs are killed because they do not have time to get out of their planes and open their parachutes. Last week the Navy gave a spectacular demonstration of a British ejection seat that may become the American carrier pilot's best friend: even at minimum altitudes the seat automatically ejects the pilot and opens his chute...
...Navy has authorized one nuclear missile cruiser (the U.S.S. Long Beach). A nuclear carrier is in the works, and five more are contemplated. Nuclear destroyers will be difficult because their reactors will have to be lighter than any known today, but their ultimate success is considered sure. They will stay at sea indefinitely, while conventional types must be refueled every week...