Word: hatboro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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High Tension. In Hatboro, Pa., Ralph Kufen returned from a trip to an electrical repairmen's convention after hearing that his house had caught fire because of faulty wiring...
...half-dollars he saved grew steadily, and for good reason. Fraiman lived like a pauper. His home was surrounded by his junkyard near Hatboro, Pa., 15 miles north of Philadelphia. He used an outhouse, burned wood in his stove, ate out of cans. He paid a marriage broker only $15 of the promised $50 fee for finding him a wife, on the theory that it might not work out. It didn't, not after she was extravagant enough on one occasion to squander $1 for a taxi ride home...
Donald G. Ritchie '59, of Winthrop House and Hatboro, Penn., died yesterday after having been in a coma for two weeks...
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Supermanometer. The Fischer & Porter Co. of Hatboro, Pa. has an electrically operated pressure gauge (manometer) that it claims is far more sensitive than any competitor. Invented by Swedish-born Frederick C. Melchior, it has four disk-shaped pressure chambers like those of ordinary aneroid barometers. But the movements of the disks in response to changes of pressure do not swing a dial needle. They are read, instead, by an electrical device that detects very small movements. Used as an altimeter, the instrument flashes a red light when raised three inches off a table...