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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most surprising contribution was a half-hour gem of erudition, illustrated with colored slides, on The Iridescent Colors of Hummingbird Feathers. Author: Crawford H. Greenewalt, 57. whose excursions into advanced ornithology are somehow sandwiched into his workaday duties as president of massive E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co...
Three years ago, Raytheon Co. of Waltham, Mass, set out to see what it could do to cure these shortcomings. Its scientists started with the knowledge that when carbon-rich gases are put in a lab furnace and decomposed by high heat, they sometimes deposit carbon in the form of a peculiarly dense graphite. At first this stuff was only a laboratory curiosity, and for a long time no one made it in quantity or thoroughly tested its properties. But after considerable experimentation, Raytheon's furnaces yielded a hard, impermeable, layered material that looks like black porcelain. Called Pyrographite...
Born 43 years ago into a wealthy Chicago family (Thor Power Tool Co.), Florsheim was a painfully shy child, channeled all his energies into straight-A scholarship and crude, gloomy art. His father reluctantly helped him get an art education in Europe during the 1930s, but before World War II Florsheim managed to sell just one picture...
Nevertheless, the prospect of a faster flow of steel was causing steel-short manufacturing plants to revise their production schedules. Ford Motor Co.. which ha been running most of its 17 assembly plants on a four-day basis, will step up to five-day operations this week without fear of exhausting its stockpile. General Motors, which is altogether shut down made plans to start recalling workers within two weeks, hoped to be back in limited production in three weeks...
AUTO-INSURANCE DISCOUNTS of 15% will be given by Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. on compact cars, topping the 10% discount offered by Allstate. Autos eligible are 1955 and later models priced under $2,300 which do not exceed 3,000 Ibs., 200 in. in length...