Word: folsoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When he chanced to meet RCA President Frank Folsom at a dinner party two years ago, Playwright Robert (There Shall Be No Night) Sherwood warned Folsom "not to do what the movies have done. They've never yet developed any good writers. Get people writing original stuff, strictly for TV." Replied Folsom: "What about...
Hibben thought the remains had been left by an ancient human hunter, who had dragged the beast's carcass into the cave. He christened him Sandia Man. He estimated that Sandia Man was of an even earlier generation than the 10,000-year-old Folsom Man, whose traces were first found in Folsom, N.Mex. in 1925-and, later, on a higher level of Sandia Cave. But other scientists treated the findings with skepticism. There was no proof, they said, that Folsom Man had any ancestors on the American continent...
This is twice as old as the proved age of his next-door neighbor, the primitive man from Folsom. Said Anthropologist Hibben: "This is not geological guesswork. It's an exact, mathematical method of dating. A great many skeptics did not believe man existed in the New World prior to 10,000 years ago. We now have incontrovertible proof...
...even though he had escaped from Folsom Prison during his term, and committed new crimes before being caught, and even though his own mother, afraid of her son, pleaded against his release-Pedrini was paroled. Last month, after pistol-whipping and robbing another gas-station operator, Pedrini began running wild in neighboring Sonora County...
...Additional tax reduction is desired by everyone," said Under Secretary of the Treasury Marion Folsom, onetime treasurer of Eastman Kodak and longtime NAMster in good standing. "But taxes can be reduced further only as expenditures are reduced." Folsom saw little hope for big cuts in spending; in fact, said he, with the excess-profits tax expiring and personal taxes about to be cut, there was already the prospect of a $7.5 billion deficit next year. In view of that, the Administration would oppose the cut in corporate-tax rates (from 52% to 47%) and the elimination of some excise taxes...