Word: garretts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...black doctors, scientists and inventors made important contributions to post-Civil War technological advances. Jan Ernst Matzeliger, a native of Dutch Guiana, laid the foundations of the shoe in dustry with his shoe-lasting machine, Norbert Rillieux greatly lowered the price of sugar with a new refining technique, and Garrett Morgan introduced a number of life-saving devices, not least of which was the traffic signal. George Washington Carver, of course, transformed Southern agriculture by discovering scores of new uses-from peanut butter to shaving cream-for the lowly peanut, soybean and sweet potato. In medicine, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams...
Investigation of the January 2 fire in a Harvard Medical laboratory indicated that excessive though not illegal amounts of methanol were stored in the lab, state Fire Marshall Ralph L. Garrett announced Friday...
According to state law, Laboratories may store 156 gallons of Class A fluid in one place. Garrett said the Harvard laboratory had stored enough methanol "to pickle half the pygmies in Patagonia." Harvard did not go over the legal limits however...
...Garrett said he is drawing up new recommendations for the use of Class A fluids like methanol, ether, ethyl alcohol, and acetone...
Signal Oil and Gas Co., having acquired companies in fields as diverse as aerospace (Garrett Corp.), trucking (Mack) and banking (Arizona Bancorporation), recently jested in advertisements that "we've thought of calling ourselves Signalgarrettmacktruckarizonabancorporation." While Signal does, in fact, plan to take on a new name that will better reflect its conglomerate status, that tongue twister will never do-if only because the company would have to keep changing its letterheads. Last week, for instance, it might have become "Signalgarrettmacktruckarizonabancorporationallischalmers...