Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Free. But Scientific American has been dominated by the family which has owned and published it through almost its entire career, the Manhattan Munns, one of Ward McAllister's original "400." Present editor and publisher (third in the line) is Orson Desaix Munn, 61, a patent lawyer, crack bird hunter and fisherman, rumba fancier, familiar figure in Manhattan café society. He passes on everything that goes into the magazine...
...brawny wildcatters, are the new glamor boys of the oil industry. This week sprawling Standard Oil Co. (Indiana) underlined this fact when it upped Chemist-Engineer Robert Erastus Wilson, 51, to its board chairmanship (vacant since 1929). Wilson knows better than anyone else in Standard how to crack the last salable product out of a gallon of crude oil. To make sure that Wilson will have enough crude to work on, Standard also upped Geologist Alonzo William Peake, a director, to the presidency, to succeed retiring President Edward Seubert. Eugene Holman, president of Standard Oil (N.J.), is also a geologist...
...need to say more to you. You all feel it. Everything is at stake. You bear the holy duty to ... achieve the superhuman for our Fatherland and our Führer." After a short spell of bad weather which grounded Allied reconnaissance and attack planes, Rundstedt struck. Crack German armored and infantry divisions drove in behind massive artillery barrages. German paratroops landed behind the U.S. lines, tried to snarl communications. Buzz-bombs, rockets and a new, undescribed V-weapon came over the lines...
...henceforth the Pacific Coast and other AA leagues should get $10,000 (a compromise figure) instead of $7,500 when one of their players is drafted by a major-league club; 2) if & when the major leagues invade minor-league territory, the incumbent minor-league owners should get first crack at the major franchise. Not even energetic Pants Rowland expected the resolutions to be approved at this week's major-league powwow; but he plainly intended that his P.C.L. would be heard from again...
Died. Carl A. Cover, 51, lean, weather-beaten, super-efficient Bell Aircraft Corp. vice president, onetime crack test pilot of nearly all Douglas aircraft (e.g., DC-3 transport, A20 attack "Havoc" bomber, etc.); and Max Stupar, 59, Austrian-born industrial-aviation planner; in an airplane crash, while flying a twin-engined cargo plane from Marietta, Ga. to Buffalo, N.Y.; near Wright Field, Dayton...