Word: clinton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Westinghouse Engineer Clinton R. Hanna got the idea from the famed tank-gun stabilizer that he developed during the war. The stabilizer made it possible to fire a gun accurately from a speeding tank. Looking around for a peacetime use for his device, Hanna finally tinkered together a contraption with an extraordinary capacity for detecting the slightest...
...Farmers. Grain speculation, as Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson observed only a few hours after the President's fluff, had already fallen off; trading had fallen 53% since the one-third cash margin rule was put into effect two weeks ago (TIME, Oct. 13). But the price of grain went right on rising. Next day, when rumors spread that CCC was about to step out of the market, the price of wheat fell off a bit, but continued its climb when the rumor proved false. So long as the Government bought, there was no reason for grain prices...
While President Truman was trying to cope with the food shortage at hand (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the Department of Agriculture planted the seed of a program to handle the abundance to come. Before a joint meeting of the House and Senate agricultural committees last week, Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson presented the department's program to support farm prices after the wartime agricultural price-support law expires at the end of next year...
...Surplus? Then Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson dug up some figures as a warning for speculators. The U.S., said he, will have a 250 million-bu. wheat surplus next spring, even after its huge exports. (His own Bureau of Agricultural Economics was less optimistic, gave the surplus as 164 million...
Live & Learn. In Clinton, Tenn., Locomotive Engineer D. C. Yarnell went motoring in his new car, failed to look sharp enough at a railroad crossing, got himself banged up, his car demolished...