Word: jess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same week the Post Office Department, noting "substantial" disagreement as to the battery-rejuvenation merits of AD-X2, withdrew a fraud order against it. Crowed Jess M. Ritchie, dauntless co-inventor and promoter of AD-X2: "We're ready to pour it into every battery in the country...
...Mexico. His name was submitted by Interior Secretary Douglas McKay after the White House turned down the nomination of Marvin Nichols, a hydraulics and sewage engineer, and a Texas Democrat. Although he supported Ike in 1952, Nichols also served Harry Truman as nickel adviser to General Services Administrator Jess Larson, was deeply involved in the sticky affairs of GSA's big Nicaro nickel plant in Cuba. After the facts of the Nicaro mess were told in the June issue of FORTUNE, the White House turned thumbs down on Nichols' appointment...
...Ambassador to Liberia: Jess Dwight Locker, 62, a prominent Cincinnati Negro leader and lawyer, six-time member of the city council, an amateur cook...
First to testify last week was burly Jess M. Ritchie of Oakland, Calif., coinventor and manufacturer of AD-X2. He confessed that he was really a "catskinner" (tractor operator) who had stumbled on to his secret formula and was bewildered by science, bureaucracy and his own invention. He refused to reveal the secret formula, but identified the main ingredients as anhydrous sodium sulphate and "a slightly basic, nearly anhydrous magnesium sulphate." That, snapped Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey, a licensed pharmacist, "is nothing but Glauber's salt and Epsom salts. One of them you give to horses...
Sears & Co. did the job so well that California never got inside the 3O-yard line. The first-quarter score was the final score, io-o, and happy Coach Jess Hill, with his hard-working star from nearby Inglewood, summed it up: "We did pretty well offensively for a defensive team, didn't we?" Hill and Sears were already looking forward to the next Rose Bowl hurdle, undefeated U.C.L.A., which last week upended the Big Ten's Wisconsin...