Word: jewett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Frank Baldwin Jewett, 70, who as head of Bell Telephone Laboratories led the development of the dial system and the transocean telephone, helped develop movies with sound, the modern electric phonograph, and the coaxial cable for television; after an operation; in Summit...
James A. Jenkins 3G was today named by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company as one of the six winners of the 1949-50 Frank B. Jewett Fellowships. Jenkins, one of the award recipients of last year, will be granted $3000 for himself and $1500 for the institution at which he continues his studies. This post-doctorate award, designed to stimulate research in the fundamental physical sciences, was granted to him for his works in the field of topological mapping problems...
Foul Weather. In Boonville, Mo., Mayor S. L. Jewett, who parked his shiny, new car at a ballgame, finally gave up after one foul ball hit,it where he first parked it, another hit it where he next moved it, a third hit it where he moved it again...
...Shrill, scratch-penned Eleanor Jewett of Chicago's America-First Tribune put up a bald landscape of rolling hills and lowering sky, seen through a purplish haze of late-afternoon dusk: The Day Ends by Charles Kilgore...
...Board, chosen by President Frank B. Jewett of the National Academy of Sciences at the request of the Army & Navy, is composed of 40 scientists, half civilians, half Army & Navy men. Its head: Karl T. Compton, president of M.I.T. Other members of the executive committee: Chemist Roger Adams, of the University of Illinois; Alphonse R. Dochez, of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; Brigadier General William A. Borden, director of the Army's New Developments Division; Rear Admiral Julius A. Furer, the Navy's coordinator of research...