Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week General Electric Co. described something called a "rotochute," developed by Engineer I. B. Benson, to help bring rocket instruments safely back to the ground. It looks like a stocky arrow with two propeller-like blades hinged to the bulbous head that holds the instruments...
...operation she began to wonder what she could do for her surgeon, the late Dr. William Holland Wilmer. She raised nearly $5,000,000 among his patients to establish the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute at Johns Hopkins. Four years ago a group of Manhattan eye surgeons asked her to help start the eye bank. She is now executive director...
...hats, put up by local merchants and automobile clubs. Only one outsider, a veteran driver named Juan Fangio, managed to muscle in on their monopoly - and paid dearly for it. In a road duel with Oscar, Fangio's car overturned. Gálvez raced on, not stopping to help. (Fangio cracked up on the next leg, killing his mechanic.) One Buenos Aires paper, cheering Oscar on, ran a headline: CAN ANYTHING STOP HIM? The foggy, mountainous road between Cúcuta and Valera couldn't. At times, he could not see two yards ahead - and going straight instead...
...Battered Chevie. Only 300 miles from Caracas, Oscar's red Ford plunged down an embankment. When Juan came along, he stopped to help his brother get back on the road. It took so long that it cost him his chance of winning the race; besides, his own car was limping and had to be towed, thus violating one of the rules. One day last week, with 100,000 citizens of Caracas anxiously waiting at the finish line of the Gran Premio, a battered, fenderless Chevie coupe rolled down the Avenida San Martin. Out stepped Domingo Marim...
Molasses in January. In the largest deal of its kind in history, Publicker Industries, Inc. contracted to buy the remaining 1948 crop of Cuban molasses-between 80 million and 100 million gallons. The supply, valued at more than $15 million at current prices, will help Publicker keep its position as the No. 1 producer of industrial alcohol. Said one company official: it will also eliminate "any possibility of an anti-freeze shortage this year...