Word: harvey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thomas Parr, a Shropshire lad, who lived, by his own unauthenticated and undocumented account, almost 153 years, was a contemporary of Shakespeare and of Dr. William Harvey. The Anatomical Examination to which TIME refers was Harvey's report of an autopsy performed upon Parr by order of the King, Charles I ... Many books of general reference mention Parr. His outstanding honor in comtemporary literature is his appearance on page one of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake...
When he was called before a Senate Banking subcommittee last month to defend a $10.1 million loan authorization to Texmass Petroleum Co., RFC Chairman Harley Hise assured the committee that this was "the first loan RFC has ever made to the oil industry." Last week RFC Director Harvey Gunderson corrected his boss. RFC has been in the oil business since 1940, Gunderson told the subcommittee. In that time it has made 82 loans amounting to $18.9 million for oil development. Some 13 oil loans were still outstanding and three more besides Texmass' had been authorized...
Dave Carter and Harvey Thayer can take the 100 and 220. George Ellis and Hobart Gottlieb are Yale's threats in the 100, while Gottlieb should be close to Thayer in the longer sprint...
What he lacked in technical know-how he counted on getting from son Harvey, engineer-trained at Ohio State. With a handful of tools and parts, and a force of 50 workers, the Pokrasses leased 16,000 square feet of space in a huge, 20-story Hudson River warehouse, and set up shop. As production boss, Harvey Pokrass finally built an assembly line that could turn out a complete set every 40 seconds, set up a three-month training course for new workers. Harvey also kept Tele King ahead technically by being among the first to switch production to rectangular...
...Time. To market this ever-mounting production, Harvey lined up Manhattan's mammoth Macy's department store to take a big part of Tele King production by offering prices which enabled Macy's to undersell "name" brands (Tele King's price range: $179.95 for 12-inch table models, to $399.95 for a 19-inch console and $499.95 for a 16-inch player combination). Soon, Tele King made similar deals with the May Co., one of the biggest U.S. retail chains, and many another big store and appliance dealer...