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There was good reason for the enthusiasm over Owens-Corning, a pioneer and undisputed leader of the fledgling glass-fiber industry, and still only 23.8% publicly owned. Owens-Corning Fiberglas was organized in 1938 by Owens-Illinois and Corning Glass Works, as an independent company to develop glass-fiber products. In 13 years, its sales have climbed from $3.8 million to 1951's $97.4 million; net profits to $6,064,750 or $1.93 a share on the new stock basis. President Harold Boeschenstein, who has been pushing Owens-Corning since its birth, estimates that the whole glass-fiber industry...
Back in the '30s, Owens-Illinois and Corning Glass spent more than $7,500,000 on research into glass fiber, although neither company invented it. The threadlike glass was made in London over 100 years ago; a jacket woven of coarse glass fibers was displayed at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893. Owens-Illinois got commercially interested in glass fiber in 1931, when Chemist Games Slayter stumbled across a way to make fluffy glass fibers which could be used for insulation. In 1938 Owens-Illinois and Corning Glass formed Owens-Corning Fiberglas, split 95% of its stock...
...Bertrand Russell from his appointment to teach mathematics and logic at the College of the City of New York. In a melodramatic orgy of name-calling, his writings were attacked as "lecherous, salacious, libidinous, lustful, venerous, erotomaniac, aphrodisiac, atheistic, irreverent, narrow-minded, untruthful and bereft of moral fiber." Ten years later, the Nobel Prize Committee handed down a dissenting opinion by giving him its 1950 award for literature...
Understandably, the Oliviers' Antony is a high-romantic one, less of the world than of the world-well-lost. Olivier as Antony is impulsive, audacious, angry, half-aging lion and half-untamed whelp; he is not-as Godfrey Tearle was so brilliantly-an assured leader with the weakened fiber and amorous susceptibilities of late middle age. As Antony, Olivier is a good actor, but not the architect of a commanding role. Vivien Leigh's Cleopatra is an all-too-believable enchantress -mercurial, irresistible, even royal; only not of Shakespearean depth and stature. Actress Leigh mistakes mere emotionalism...
...conflicting basketball schedule. Said Streit: "The inference here is clear that the president of the university impressed the athlete that it was more important to play basketball that day than to serve the administration of justice in a murder case. Such an impact on the athlete's moral fiber may prove irreparable...