Word: folsoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ELECTRONICS SALES, now at the $8.4 billion mark, will climb to $12 billion annually by 1957, predicted R.C.A. President Frank M. Folsom...
Businessmen seemed just as confident of the long-term future. Frank M. Folsom, president of the Radio Corp. of America, predicted that more than 350,000 color television sets will be sold by the end of 1955, and that sales should reach an annual rate of 5,000,000 by 1958. RCA, he said, has already invested $50 million in color television, is now going into production of a 21-in. color set to sell between $800 and $900. As for black-and-white sets, said Folsom, more will be "sold in 1954 than in any of the previous seven...
About a year ago, Keith Glasscock, a pipeline welder and amateur archaeologist, spent a Sunday afternoon poking around the Scharbauer Ranch near Midland, Texas. In a "blowout" (a hollow scooped by wind), he found some Folsom points. When he returned a few days later, the wind had dug the hollow deeper. On the surface of the blowing sand were fragments that looked like broken human bones. Glasscock picked them up, but was wise enough not to dig without expert advice...
...Soon Wendorf and a group of learned colleagues were digging a trench at the Midland site. They found a few more bone fragments, and six months later, in a full-dress expedition, found a selection of ice-age animals, most of which were probably extinct before the period of Folsom man. It looked as if both human and animal bones had come from a stratum of grey sand that lay considerably below the reddish sand containing the Folsom points...
...animal and human bones for their fluorine content, which increases with age. He decided that their age is about the same. Since the animals lived in the Pleistocene (glacial) era, "Midland man" must be Pleistocene too. He may have lived anywhere from 2,000 to 10,000 years before Folsom man, who therefore remains a ghost, but is no longer the oldest American...