Word: corpe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remarkable how few people realize that the Russian scientific tradition goes back so far," says Mathematician Richard Bellman of the Rand Corp. "In some fields, we've always been behind." It was the 19th century Russian Botanist Dmitry Ivanovsky who discovered the first plant virus. Dmitry Pryanishnikov originated soil research, and world-famed Dmitry Mendeleev charted the elements and drew up the periodic scale still found in every high school laboratory. Had Aleksandr Popov worked a bit faster, he might well have wrested from Marconi credit for inventing the radio. In 1904 Ivan Pavlov won a Nobel Prize...
...Boeing's already-tested 707 in the jet airliner race. To sell such new airliners, U.S. aircraft manufacturers are adopting an old-fashioned marketing technique: the trade-in allowance. Boeing has agreed to take back 14 propeller-driven Stratocruisers when it delivers its 707s to British Overseas Airways Corp., has offered to give trade-in allowances on nine more 707s to Northwest Airlines. Douglas is negotiating with United Air Lines to take in some DC-7s as a down payment on 30 DC-8s; Lockheed is dickering in the same way to sell its turboprop Electras. All told...
With a wave of a symbolic radioactive wand. Pat Nixon last week sponsored the keel-laying of the world's first atomic merchantman-and gave the U.S. another leg up in the race to develop peaceful uses for nuclear power. To be built by New York Shipbuilding Corp. at Camden, N.J., N.S. Savannah will cost $40 million by the time it is completed in 1960. will serve as the model for private shippers who are increasingly anxious to get into the field. Cities Service. Gulf Oil and Standard Oil (N.J.) are all interested, and the Maritime Administration hopes...
Letting his fins down, Clare Briggs, Chrysler Corp. vice president, last week issued some plain talk on what is wrong with the auto business. "Many salesmen don't know how to sell," he said, auto service is bad, and the quality of cars is "not as good as ten years ago." The auto industry, admitted Briggs, "has treated the public badly, to say it mildly...
...founder-president and board chairman of Zenith Radio Corp., globe-trotting adventurer who persuaded the Navy to use short wave radio by going to the Arctic in 1925 and working a ship 12,000 miles away in New Zealand waters, also flew his own glider, raced outboards, mined gold in Mexico, lived on a yacht on the Chicago River, managed to build his company's sales to over $160 million in 1957; of cancer; in Chicago...