Word: keyser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dale Chadwick, battling in the heavy-weight class, overcame House champ M. S. Rustein in semi-finals and went on to carry off all-University honors by defeating Brent Keyser in the finals...
...Profits which are so high that they cannot be absorbed by investment, remain unspent and reduce consumer purchasing power," he explained. Keyser-ling also noted that the spending of war time savings, reconversion investments, and European aid buoy up the economy temporarily, but warned that a severe depression was inevitable unless income distribution is improved...
...telephone company when he was assigned to a Fire Direction Center team at Fort Sill, Okla., in mid-November 1940. In self-defense against slow torture from intricate mathematics, Harry Burns one night experimented with a homemade paper slide rule. Most officers were unimpressed. But one major, George V. Keyser (now a brigadier commanding the 74th Field Artillery in Mississippi), saw the potentialities of Burns's Graphical Firing Table...
Together Burns and Keyser smoothed the G.F.T.'s kinks and adapted it to compute ranges for any powder charge and any weapon. Getting it accepted by the Army was slower work. Eventually Harry Burns was ready to give up; above his desk he pinned a bunch of red tape (to make himself feel at home) and slouched back to ruminate on horses. But Keyser kept rushing in where colonels feared to tread. Eventually he sold the War Department...
...award primarily for his application of chemical engineering principles to oil, was not the only petroleum man present at the meeting. Flanking him at the speaker's table were two other top-flight scientists who have made their mark in chemistry via petroleum research. One was Per Keyser Frolich, president of the American Chemical Society and director of the chemical division of Standard of New Jersey's potent Esso laboratories. The other was Dr. Thomas Midgley Jr., president-elect of the Society, pioneer in the development of antiknock gasoline, and vice president of Ethyl Gasoline Corp...