Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beamed Balliol College hall, undergraduates crowded to hear his quiet-toned discourses, and at Balliol's long, oak-topped high-table with its silver candlesticks, notables came from all over the world to dine and talk with him. But in his spare time, when his Oxford duties were done, the master was apt to vanish...
...Columbia 33⅓-r.p.m. turntable, plug it into the old 78 r.p.m. machine, and call it a solution? Nearly a million record buyers have done just that. But millions of others have hesitated. RCA Victor has by far the world's largest recording roster of fine artists. Would the rest of the industry be pulled into RCA's strong orbit? Until they had the answer, many record collectors stopped buying altogether...
...built a house to sell for $6,750, including a ½-acre lot and a septic tank. Explained Woods: "I thought it was about time somebody did something about housing the guy who makes $50 a week. The building industry told me it couldn't be done, so I decided to find out for myself...
Woods had simply turned the project over to an architect friend, who had got the job done. The architect's fee was $400 for each of the first two houses, but would be shaved to $50 each on a mass-production basis. Woods's profit: $350 a house...
Something was also being done about the big TV problem that lurked upstairs. Buyers were shying away from the high ($50 to $150) cost of installing and servicing aerials; worse still, many an apartment landlord was forbidding any more installations on his already cluttered rooftop, thus hitting hard at the big city audience, television's best market. To meet this threat, Raytheon Manufacturing Co. and Chicago's Earl ("Madman") Muntz had each brought out sets with built-in aerials, which gave fair service in areas where signals were strong...