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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, Du Pont finally found its long-sought competitors in Olin Industries, Inc., one of the biggest U.S. makers of cartridges, military small arms, and sporting rifles. Du Pont will sell Olin licenses on all Cellophane patents. Du Pont will also design and build a plant with a capacity of 33 million pounds of Cellophane a year on a fixed fee basis, and then help train Olin's personnel to get the operation started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Wrapped in Cellophane | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

When Pratt Segmiller isn't running a filling station in Marysvale (pop. 600), Utah, he hunts rocks. One day, while prospecting around the sage and cedar-covered mountains northeast of Marysvale, he found some strange yellow-colored rocks strewn over a surface of about 60 acres. Segmiller thought they might be valuable, so he staked a claim and called the Vanadium Corp. of America. When it inspected the claim; it got pretty excited and leased the land from Segmiller. The yellow rocks were autunite, a uranium-bearing ore, and the strike looked like the most promising yet made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINING: The Yellow Rocks | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

Professor Domagk had found that the thiosemicarbazones were active against the tubercle bacillus and against no other germs (hence the name Tibione, derived from T.B. One). Because streptomycin and P.A.S. were hard to get in dollar-short Europe, German doctors used cheap-to-make Tibione lavishly on all kinds of tuberculosis sufferers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: War Booty | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

Sometimes the hazards are greater. Lucille Ball once had to walk off a Chicago stage when hooligans shouting in the balcony began to get too personal. On his way to make a movie in England, Robert Taylor found two bobby-soxers under his stateroom bed on the Mauretania. As a fledgling of 21, making his first tour, William Holden suffered hotel-room invasions by voracious women. In 1946, at London's first Royal Film Performance, a Hollywood contingent headed by Ray Milland touched off a mob scene that sent three fans to the hospital and 100 to first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In the Flesh | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

Billet Doux. In Portland, Me., Floyd Kierstead, suing for divorce, charged his wife with carrying on a correspondence with the garbage collector, cited as evidence a love note he had found in the garbage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 21, 1949 | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

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