Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University of California's Radiation Laboratory director, invented the atom-smashing cyclotron-which has been called "as useful in research as the microscope." Born in Canton, S.D., where his father was a superintendent of schools, Lawrence worked his way through local Midwestern colleges selling aluminum ware from door to door, and successfully so, despite the fact that the cakes he baked, as part of his presentation, usually caved flat as a platter. A Ph.D. (Yale, 1925), he spent his early career studying the phenomenon of ionization, began working on the cyclotron as early as 1930. He first demonstrated...
Nobody was reaching for the door. Instead, the British and the other allies seized the opportunity provided by the new U.S. recognition of interdependence to bind the U.S. more firmly to Europe and to pull themselves closer together. "The American people are no longer confident that even their great country can do everything for itself, without allies, to secure its own survival and still less to secure the survival of the ideals for which they stand," said Macmillan...
...door to competition was opened for Mortgage Guaranty by the FHA's rigid interest rate, set by Congress at a maximum 5¼%. In the tight-money market, banks and lending institutions have increasingly passed up FHA-backed loans to get the higher interest rates on unguaranteed mortgages. This has made it harder for many would-be buyers who were not top credit risks to get mortgages. Milwaukee Real Estate Lawyer Max H. Karl, 47, and Real Estateman S. W. Kallas, who founded Mortgage Guaranty last April, thought that a private firm could fill the gap. Friends, relatives...
Concord police reported that the three youths--Newell, Saunders, and the girl--kicked in the glass in the front door of the Mickey Finn store in Concord, and stole 11 pistols and rifles worth...
...intend to sign any new contracts that would appreciably increase production. Thus, after ten years of an all-out program to expand uranium mining. AEC put on the squeeze: any big new uranium discoveries will probably not be able to find a market. But Johnson did leave the door open a bit for the building of mills in hitherto undeveloped regions: "If new contracts are considered, preference will be given to providing a limited market for areas having no present milling facilities...