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...December 1952, Drs. Ernest Courant and Hartland Snyder of Brookhaven, Dr. M. Stanley of M.I.T. and Dr. John Blewett published a new method of focusing the protons in a chamber only 6 in. in cross section. They had been anticipated by Nicholas C. Christofilos, a U.S. citizen of Greek extraction who had been stranded in Greece during World War II and had taught himself physics from books distributed by the Germans. In 1953 he revealed that he had applied in 1950 for a U.S. patent on a "strong focusing" system much like the one developed at Brookhaven. His patent rights...
London admitted: losses at Oran and Algiers included the Netherlands destroyer Isaac Sweers, the small British aircraft carrier Avenger (a Lend-Lease converted U.S. merchant ship), three British destroyers, five other small vessels and two ex-U.S. Coast Guard cutters, the Walney and Hartland, which, licked by flames, crashed through a boom at Oran into the inner harbor and landed troops before they sank...
...love for railroads watching the Central Vermont's famous engine, General Taylor, cross his father's pastures in North Hartland, Vt. One day in April 1879, he decided to find out where it went, got a job as a $1-a-day section hand, worked up as fireman, locomotive engineer, machinist, trainmaster and superintendent. At 43 he became vice president of James J. Hill's Burlington. When in 1910 he got his call to put B. & O. in order, Hill fought to hold him, vainly offered to merge the Burlington and Great Northern, make Uncle Dan president...
...Danbury woman said: "They started to have one for us, but my husband went out and sent them off to the saloon." In Newport, N. H.: "I went to one or two when I was a kid. Now they rice 'em up and confetti 'em up." In Hartland, Conn.: " 'Member when we serenaded. Drinked up three gallon...
...Warner). John Reeves (George Arliss) of Reeves Shoe Co. is a testy old tycoon; when his nephew and general manager implies that his days of usefulness are over, he takes himself fishing in a rage, runs into the two addle-headed children of his recently deceased industrial rival, Hartland. At first, Reeves plans to diddle the Hartland heirs out of their shoe factory. Presently he changes his mind; it pleases him better to get himself appointed their guardian under a pseudonym, make them help him build up their plant. This adds to their self-respect and diminishes the conceit...