Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the magic laws of Newton pointed clearly into the sky, no one apparently followed their lead until a shy, deaf, self-educated Russian schoolteacher, got to thinking about air travel in the 1890s. Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky, born in 1857, wrote about space flight with amazing prescience. He chose the rocket as the only possible space engine and derived mathematically the speed that its exhaust gases would have to attain. He decided that it should burn liquid fuel. This conclusion he published in 1898, when not even an airplane had left the ground...
...there were a conspiracy to get all parody over and done with as quickly as possible, CBS chose the same night, same time slot, to run Jack Benny's long-celebrated Autolight, a 15-minute spoof of Gaslight, the 1944 melodrama in which a Victorian villain tries to drive his wife insane. Filmed in 1952, Autolight was impounded by the courts after M-G-M complained that Benny's hoked-up version hewed so closely to the original that it violated copyright laws. Benny fought the case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court (TIME, March...
...ORLEANS, La.--A hard-bargaining Democratic party committee chose Los Angeles yesterday as the site for the party's 1960 national convention...
Reuben A. Brower, Master of Adams House appointed Roy A. Gosse '60 of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., to the Council. Gordon M. Fair Master of Dunster House, has appointed Daniel A. Pollack'60, of New York City, and John H. Finley, Master of Eliot House, chose James D. Lorenz Jr.'60 of Dayton, Ohio...
...made head of the northeast office in 1928, moved past 16 men to become Pacific Coast manager in 1930, soon chose to transfer to G.E.'s new merchandising department in Bridgeport, Conn, to "get closer to the hub of the corporate wheel." He hiked sales in the electric heating division 60% in four years, became assistant to Bridgeport Boss Charles E. Wilson. When "Electric Charlie" Wilson moved up to become executive vice president of G.E., Ralph Cordiner stepped into his shoes at Bridgeport. He was only...