Word: haying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John Hay Whitney LL.D...
...battleship U.S.S. Delaware, Chief Electrician Morgan helped an inventor named Elmer Sperry install a new gyroscopic compass for a test. Sperry was so impressed that he hired Morgan, who worked up through the Sperry ranks, became president in 1928, expanded the firm into a wide field (e.g., guided missiles, hay balers), and retired in 1952. A working, organization Democrat, Morgan summed up his view of the Oppenheimer case: "This is not small peanuts. It is bigger than Dr. Oppenheimer, and it is bigger than the Eisenhower Administration . . . The question is whether you are going to have one security system...
...Machinery lies all around the railroad stations. One can see everywhere mounds of broken parts lying in the mud . . . Many things get spoiled. Gasoline, lubricants, hay, spares, combines are being kept together in one backyard; hay mowers rot in the compost . . . Some spare parts are just thrown into the middle of the street, and the tractors which go by crush them to pieces...
Working on an antihistaminic drug which they had developed for the control of allergies such as hay fever, researchers at France's Rhône-Poulenc laboratories found that the drug made many people sleepy. For a world in need of sedatives, they took the logical step of trying to put together a related chemical that would make people even sleepier. What they found (in 1950) and first tagged 4560-RP, or chlorpromazine hydrochloride,* is now the most exciting new drug seeking recognition in the world's pharmacopoeias...
Last week, in front of a freshman dormitory, up went Pattison's second piece of campus sculpture: a gaunt and gawky 11-foot welded-steel abstraction of a horse. Student reaction was immediate-and violent. Within a few hours hay was stuffed into the horse's mouth, manure was piled under its rear end, balloons and confetti were attached to the exposed steel ribs. Three times during the night, students built bonfires under the sculpture, succeeded only in scorching the paint...