Word: experimentation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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BBC television puts out three hours a day of newscasts, ballet, interviews, boxing, short films and full-length revivals (e.g., Marlene Dietrich in Blue Angel), and at least two plays a week. If only in technique, the plays are ahead of most things U.S. television has done. With no sponsors...
One day last week Sir Bernard, 70, ill with coronary thrombosis and arthritis, locked himself into his little laboratory in University College, London. He tore up some documents and opened the petcock of a single Bunsen burner. It was enough for his final experiment. At week's end in...
Not till the war did G.M.'s experiment pay off. The Army gave G.M. big orders for diesels for overseas work (where there was more oil than coal). On the other hand, the Government restricted the old-line companies, American and Baldwin, to making war equipment for the military...
The mystery of the common cold is still a mystery. The latest attempt to penetrate the Kleenex curtain ended, as usual, in a sneeze. For 18 months of experiment, volunteer human guinea pigs had sniffled and hawked at Harvard Hospital near Salisbury, England (TIME, Feb. 3). For the greater glory...
Noble Experiment. International Harvester Co., which did its bit to stem inflation by cutting prices last March, had to raise them again. The rise in the cost of materials had put the manufacture of more than half of Harvester's industrial power products in the red. The 5% price...