Word: gram
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...I.F.W.A. (55 West 42nd St., Manhattan) are 1) "to begin at once preparation for a world organization," 2) to aid Europe's Underground, 3) to block agents and activities of the Axis in Latin America. Honorary board (chairman: Mrs. J. Borden Harriman) includes Mayor LaGuardia, Raymond Gram Swing, Harold Ickes, Viscount Cecil, Thomas Mann, Dorothy Thompson...
...Fred Allison and his collaborators of Alabama Polytechnic Institute, applying a magneto-optic method of analysis, a thousand times more sensitive than the arc spectroscope, to the study of concentrates from monazite sand, believed they had two-millionths of a gram of eka-iodine in the final concentrate. They named it alabamine. Dr. Allison did not isolate it in pure form, nor were other chemists able to confirm his magneto-optic suspicion. The anglo-helvetian stars, however, may merely have fallen on alabamine...
...rents NBC broadcasting facilities and is staffed largely by onetime NBC men, the Blue managed to achieve something of its own personality in its first corporate year. It leaned heavily on war and children's programs, built up a first-rate staff of newscasters and commentators from Raymond Gram Swing to Walter Winchell. Unable to compete with its rivals in top-flight shows, the Blue swelled with sudden dignity last month when Serge Koussevitzky (studio nickname: Blue Serge) and his Boston Symphony began the first of 46 broadcasts...
Predictions, 1942. Many a forecast for 1942 turned out poorly. Columnist Raymond Clapper thought the U.S. East Coast would be token-bombed, that the Nazis would loose poison gas on England. Columnist George Fielding Eliot wrote that Japs would be "swiftly and decisively beaten." Newscaster Raymond Gram Swing predicted Hitler would either retire or be ousted by the German Army. Author Fletcher Pratt said only a miracle could save Russia "from utter defeat." Foreign Correspondent John T. Whitaker limb-climbed with a flat forecast that the Nazis would invade Spain and Portugal in the spring. Ex-CBS Berlin Newscaster Harry...
...gram of coal burning yields about 1/100th of a kilowatt hour.) This is ample to explain the sun's energy, and the supply is big enough to last 30 billion years at its present rate of consumption...