Word: long
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lolling. Odium, who lives on a ranch at Indio, Calif., spends long hours in his swimming pool to ease the pain of rheumatoid arthritis. A long telephone extension permits him to conduct business right from the pool. From there, Odium this year has been reshuffling Atlas' holdings to tighten up control and to trim expenses. Last week, as Atlas announced plans to combine two of its biggest properties, Barnsdall Oil and Ogden Corp., into the Barnsdall Oil Co., Odium reported that the asset value of Atlas shares was again on the increase. During the first half of this year...
Addition. Tracerlab was soon marketing an array of 100 items. Samples: lead bricks (at $9.60 each) for protection from radioactivity; long-handled tongs ($25); "safety buttons," which warn laboratory workers when they have been exposed to dangerous radiation...
...same small, 50-year button that, as president, he had pinned on so many other G.E. oldtimers. Last week, at a small banquet in Manhattan's Hotel Pierre, Old-timer Wilson got it from ex-G.E. President Gerard Swope. Then Charlie Wilson took a long, hard look at the past and the future...
Born. To Freeman Gosden, 50, long-suffering "Amos" of radio's perennial Amos 'n' Andy, and Jane Stoneham Gosden, 25, half-sister of the New York Giants' President Horace Stoneham: their first child (he has a son and daughter by a previous marriage), a son; in Los Angeles. Name: Craig Leigh. Weight...
...malady spread; there was hardly a corner of Salem without its afflicted maiden. Long weighed down by Indian raids, smallpox and quarrels with London, Salem took to the outbreak of convulsions with something approaching relief, as if a holiday had been declared...