Word: inded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over, the Society of Chemical Industry gave its top award, the Perkin Medal, not to a leader of an established chemical firm like Carbide, Monsanto or Du Pont, but to Dr. Robert Erastus Wilson, head of Pan American Petroleum & Transport Co., a subsidiary of Standard Oil Co. (Ind...
Musicomedy's most sophisticated composer was born in Peru, Ind., the son of a fruitgrowing farmer. After graduating from Yale (where he wrote the still popular Bulldog and Bingo) in 1913, Porter went for a year to Harvard Law School, then switched to the department of music. While still a student he had a musical, See America First, produced on Broadway. It contained one Porter song which still makes middle-aged sentimentalists blink over their highballs: I've a Shooting Box in Scotland (words by Porter's good friend T. Lawrason Riggs, longtime Catholic chaplain at Yale...
...Benton, Ill., two basketball teams played for four minutes, then the lights in the gym went out. With the score 5-5, the teams moved to another gym, played four minutes, gave up when the lights went out with the score at 11-11. In South Bend, Ind., Ruth McGrady slipped, fell, broke her right wrist, stood up, slipped, fell, broke her left...
Thieving Santa. In Evansville, Ind., somebody who may or may not have arrived by reindeer climbed down the chimney of a barbecue, gathered up two shoulders of meat, 25 pounds of ribs, $18, went up the chimney and jingled away...
...clearer proof of the terrible responsibility which sits on the shoulders of U.S. management could be had than was given last week in the shocking case of Anaconda Wire & Cable Co. From a grand jury sitting in Fort Wayne, Ind., came a blistering indictment charging the company and the officials of its Marion, Ind. plant with faking on Government tests for wire and cable, and. with transferring inspection labels from tested to untested materials with a view to defrauding the Government. Material already sold to Russia, it was reported, has proven defective; material sold to the U.S. Army...