Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Bell Telephone Laboratories demonstrated a small, simple device that can do many of the jobs now done by vacuum tubes. Called a "Transistor," it has no vacuum, no glass envelope. It requires no heating current and can start working immediately without a warmup...
...Bell scientists, to show what their little brain cells can do, demonstrated a radio receiver with vacuum tubes replaced by Transistors. Though not very powerful, it worked fine. Probably the Transistor's first practical assignment will be to amplify currents in telephone circuits, a job now done by vacuum tubes...
...will need less than 3% in the following. For the sake of efficiency, the President assigned the job of filling such relatively small needs to the Department of Commerce, which is already supervising a number of voluntary programs, instead of to the Secretary of Defense, as he could have done under the new law. But he warned: "I have given serious consideration to the problems posed by this legislation. I am, of course, prepared to exercise this authority should it prove necessary...
...view of his first annual report (deficit $5,651,208). The report, along with Tucker's stock registration statements, said SEC, "contained untrue statements of material facts and omitted to state material facts." SEC scrutinized everything from payments to officers to the very "nature of the business done and intended to be done...
Hard-pressed Preston Tucker had done his best to squirm out of a full-dress investigation. When SEC first asked for a quiet look at his records, he balked. Then the commission, still preserving a tactful silence in public, subpoenaed him to appear with his books. Tucker took his case to the newspapers and thus broke the news that SEC wanted to see what was going on in Tucker Corp. In full-page ads, with the air of a man whose patience is infinite, he said: "My associates and myself and the Tucker Corp. have been investigated time & again...