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...first chairman of Inter national Business Machines and made him by inheritance the largest single stockholder in IBM (167.000 shares now worth $85.5 million). Besides refining his taste for good living and pretty girls, Fairchild tended his investments wisely, personally developed the first plane with an enclosed cabin (the FC-1), manufactured the C-119 Flying Boxcar, and built superb but too costly hi-fi equipment. Like many inventors, Fairchild was a better creator than administrator...
Belgian consul general in Damascus, and found 33 submachine guns, 37 pistols, a time bomb and 1,500 rounds of ammunition jampacked in the trunk. De San, a millionaire eccentric who admitted making ten such trips in the last few weeks, was found to be carrying riot directions fc-r persons in Beirut...
...fight to get better wages fc Filipino workers, Jesuit Father Walter I Hogan, Manila's "labor priest," has mad himself some formidable enemies (TIMI March 12, 1951). But he has had the COE consistent support of Papal Nuncio Egidi Vagnozzi, a brisk, 46-year-old Italia whose plain speaking long ago got him th nickname of "II Americano" in Vatica circles. Since his arrival 2½-years ago Archbishop Vagnozzi has given heavy be hind-the-scenes support to the efforts of Roman Catholics like Philadelphian He gan to give Filipinos a fresh deal before the Communists...
...served on Harry Truman's Committee on Civil Rights (which recommended an FEPC), he insisted that, he had dissented on the matter of compulsion. His supporters went further, ran an ad which said: "When Frank Graham speaks, the Senate listens. Graham can win votes against FEPC." fc Obviously designed to be confused with Walter White, executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, who had sent no such message...
Explanation; Fm vechicular flow on Main St.; for "peak hour"; Fc=ditto on Cross St.;Lm=left turns from Main St.;Lc= ditto from Cross St.;Pm= pedestrian flow across Main St.; rc = ditto across Cross St -Wm= Width of Mam St.; W. -width of Cross St; Sh -average speed of vehicles going faster than critical approach speed; So critical approach Speed K = derived constant; Wk -standard width of roadway; A = arbitrary values for special conditions; IR = composite intersection rating...