Word: fo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...alike, can be erased and rerecorded in case of mistakes. Armour said that Eastman Kodak Co., Revere Camera Co., Ampro Corp., and Bell & Howell Co all plan to have the new films and adapters ready by next spring. The price of film is estimated at about 50? more than fo soundless rolls. Price of the sound adapter: about...
...years the dime novels, pulp magazines and comic books of Street & Smith have helped U.S. males while away billions of idle hours in bunkhouses, fo'c'sles, foxholes and subways. One generation escaped into a world of high adventure and happy endings in Nick Carter and Horatio Alger tales; another ate up Supersnipe and the Shadow comics. None of their pulp-paper characters was ever so hard-boiled as Street & Smith themselves; whenever a title slipped in public favor, they coldly shot it down. Last week Street & Smith staged a mass execution. In one volley, their last five...
...Slaves fo Delusions. Specialization had its defenders. Harvard's Professor of Education Phillip Rulon argued that scientists, by & large, were well educated and civically conscious. Purdue's Engineering Dean Andrey Potter contended that engineering schools today respected the humanities. Purdue's average engineering student, he said, spends four-fifths of his time on his specialty, and one-fifth on the humanities, i.e., the rest of the universe. Even this slim ration is considerably cut by many schools...
...Communists. As nominal head of the delegation they named General Chang Chih-chung, former governor of Sinkiang Province and commander of Nationalist headquarters in northwest China. A close friend of China's No. 2 Communist, General Chou Enlai, he was the only important member of former Premier Sun Fo's cabinet the Reds failed to tag as a war criminal. Another member: soprano-voiced Shao Li-tse, a former ambassador to Russia...
Last April, during China's vice presidential elections, Kung cannonaded: "The election of Sun Fo to the Vice Presidency would be a confession of nationwide corruption." The next day, two truckloads of thugs wrecked the National Salvation Daily and put nine staffers in the hospital. Kung lost only one day in getting his paper out on borrowed presses...