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Harvard to Hollywood. Edwin ("Din") Land, now a handsome, boyish-looking 46, was a physics student at Harvard when he quit to form his own company in 1932 to market his first major invention, a plastic that filters the glare out of light rays. During World War II, Polaroid Corp. did a $16 million-a-year business making glare-proof gunsights and sunglasses and other products for the armed forces. But by 1948 gross sales were down to $1,481,372 (net loss: $865,256). Land's camera snapped Polaroid into the black again (1949 profit...
...Million Windshields. Din Land firmly believes that creative invention is a "one-man operation," until he is convinced a new product is nearly ready to market. Then his team moves in. One of biggest potential developments: a sys tem of polarized auto windshields and leadlight lenses that, in combination, take the glare out of night driving. One big obstacle: since the super-brilliant lights used in the Polaroid system would require new headlight and windshield glass for all the 60 million-odd cars...
From Chancellor of the Exchequer Richard A. Butler came a promise of continued stiffening of bank credit and an indication-certain to raise a din from the Laborite opposition-of cutbacks in food and housing subsidies, public works and other aspects of the Labor-fostered welfare state. Butler called it a program to "expand success and curb excess." "I did not know the horse would be so excitable when it saw the oats of freedom," said Rab Butler, less apt at figures of speech than figures of finance. "We need to prune back our roses to get better blooms...
Drowned Out. The press play was less than expected. As had happened before, Stevenson's carefully cadenced sentences could hardly be heard against the din of Harry Truman...
...shone bright on old Kentucky homes, the meadows were in bloom, and the birds were making music all the day. But most Kentuckians could hardly no tice or hear last week above the political din that filled the state. Albert Benjamin Chandler, 57, Kentucky's governor in 1935-39 and U.S. Senator in 1939-45, was noisily on the comeback trail (TIME, April 11). "Happy" Chandler was wowing the voters everywhere with his own special brand of political minstrelsy. His opponent for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, Judge Bertram T. Combs, 43, of Prestonsburg, was still campaigning in a sober...