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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Edward John Baker, 90, owner of the great trotter Greyhound, millionaire benefactor of St. Charles, Ill. (TIME, Nov. 10), heir of his sister, the widow of John W. ("Bet a Million") Gates, who earned his fortune in barbed wire and once-so they say-bet $1,000,000 on the result of a race between two raindrops down a Pullman window; in St. Charles. A town of 7,700, St. Charles and its enterprises received over the years some $5,000,000 in gifts from E. J. Baker...
...CRIMSON crossed picket lines yesterday to determine the causes of the Coca-Cola strike which has deprived the Cambridge community of the pause that refreshes. We witnessed a vivid instance of the ill will growing out of the week-old dispute...
...published in 1687, not only explained the principle that makes rockets fly but gave the essential sailing directions for space ships of the future. When a U.S. Atlas or an even bigger (for the present) Soviet space rocket roars into the sky. it runs on rails devised by the ill-tempered Sir Isaac, who sat in his English garden nearly 300 years ago and wondered why things move as they do, and why things fall. When a rocket engine shoots a jet of gas out of its tail cone, Newton's third law takes over: For every action there...
...Eaton diverted an Ontario river and drained a lake to get his huge Steep Rock iron-ore mine working, went back into steel by forming Portsmouth Steel Corp. with holdings in Detroit Steel and Cleveland-Cliffs Iron, helped that other great RFC beneficiary, Henry J. Kaiser, bankroll his ill-fated auto venture. Then, at a critical moment, Eaton backed out of a deal to underwrite $11.7 million worth of new Kaiser stock. (The court fight lasted four years; characteristically. Cy Eaton won.) One of his biggest deals: helping the late Robert R. Young win control of the New York Central...
Governor Furcolo's budget calling for a three per cent state sales tax is "ill-considered and a garish violation of the first plank of the Democratic party platform," Arnold M. Soloway, assistant professor of Economics, declared yesterday...