Word: ferdinands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...elementary school at twelve and finished Fort Hamilton High in three years. At nights he pored over books "on how to become a $5,000-a-year man." After a short-lived job with a druggists' syndicate, Marx stumbled "by sheer happenstance" into an office-boy's job with Ferdinand Strauss, whose Zippo the Climbing Monkey and Alabama Coon Jigger (a clockwork minstrel) were the first mechanical toys mass-manufactured in the U.S. Within four years, Marx had been promoted to manage the company's East Rutherford, NJ. plant, and soon afterward he had his first idea...
...would not be able to undertake actual planning duties, but would be pleased to advise the city in its blueprinting. The University and M.I.T. have been accused of failing to cooperate with the city in past planning, a charge vigorously denied by members of the City Council and by Ferdinand Rousseve, chairman of the City Planning Board...
...seven: Carl Ferdinand Cori (carbohydrate metabolism), Selman Waksman (streptomycin), Max Theiler (yellow fever), Edward Kendall and Philip Hench (cortisone), John F. Enders (virus propagation), Biochemist Vincent du Vigneaud (see SCIENCE...
...M.P.H. Most of the credit for this unparalleled record goes to the late Ferdinand Porsche, who designed his first car, a battery-driven model that made 20 m.p.h., in 1899. Porsche built one of the world's first streamlined racers in 1910, designed a revolutionary engine for a 26-ton, self-propelled gun in World War I. During the '20s and '30s, his extravagant methods of car-building and his liking for experiments nearly broke a series of employers, but his cars dominated European racing...
Mechanics Mark. Porsche and his son Ferdinand Jr. launched their sports-car factory at Gmünd, Austria in 1949, with $50,000 in capital and a first model featuring a souped-up Volkswagen engine, produced only 50 cars in their first year. In 1950 they moved into a former barracks at Stuttgart, developed a series of hand-tooled, air-cooled engines that range today from 44 to 115 h.p., and expanded to the present line of 16 models. The elder Porsche died in 1951, but sales continued to climb under the direction of son Ferry, a square-faced...