Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dickering to sell his overseas subsidiary to Pan American Airways Corp., he did not mention it to American's president, Ralph S. Damon. Smith knew what Damon would say. Damon had been the most outspoken critic of Pan Am President Juan Trippe's version of the "chosen instrument" (one "community" line made up of several U.S. airlines) in U.S. international aviation...
Damon had plugged for "regulated competition." Thus, selling American's subsidiary, American Overseas Airlines, would be a step away from Damon's ideas and towards a chosen instrument. So Damon was not told about the deal till it was all set (TIME, Dec. 20). He began feeling, in his own words, like an "ideological schizophrenic." Last week, after 13 years at American, 51-year-old Ralph Damon quit...
PONTIAC has lowered its hood and roof, widened the seats and gained a suave look reminiscent of that car of distinction, Ford's old Lincoln Continental. A styling touch: the instrument-panel clock is in the center of a concentric-ringed radio speaker. Pontiac has dropped its Torpedo line in favor of the Chieftain. Both it and the Streamliner come as 90-h.p. sixes or 103-h.p. eights. Optional Hydra-Matic transmission ($185 extra) has proved so popular it will be built into 75% of all Pontiacs...
...clinic and in his office, Schmidt has trained a score of urologists, whom he calls his "boys." As a teacher, he was unmercifully stern. During one operation he rapped an assistant sharply across the knuckles with a surgical instrument. The assistant retaliated by swatting Schmidt right back. The old surgeon stared angrily at the "boy" for a moment and then muttered: "I didn't hit you that hard...
Died. Dr. August Herman Pfund, 69, longtime Johns Hopkins University physicist, authority on optics and infra-red rays (he developed an instrument which could measure the heat of a candle 18 miles away); of a heart ailment; in Baltimore...