Word: makers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from M.I.T., Harvard and numerous companies bend over their gurgling test tubes, devising new products and methods for plastics, electronics and other industries. In Cohasset, Mass., a small seashore town, D. S. Kennedy Co. turns out giant radar antennas; in Barre, Vt., even the Rock of Ages Corp., tombstone maker, is making capacitators for use in radio and television sets...
Nobel and Pulitzer prizes come to Cambridge with boring regularity. But David A. Berndt '55 of Adams House and Seekonk, Massachusetts is the first undergraduate to receive a Kellog Junior Ad-Maker Award. Berndt reveived a certification and lapel pin in yesterday's mail...
...Brave Don't Cry (Group Three; Mayer-Kingsley) is a fairly maudlin title for a lean, unsparing movie about a Scottish mine disaster. Produced by oldtime Documentary-Maker John Grierson, the picture is based on a real-life disaster in the Knockshinnock Castle Colliery in 1950. It tells of a mine cave-in and the rescue of 118 miners trapped for two days in West No. 4 section between the firedamp and a flooded pit shaft...
Starring Robert Donat, the J. Arthur Rank technicolor masterpiece features almost every well-known English star. Michael Redgrave briefly appears as an instrument maker, while Emlyn Williams only faces the audience once...
...bringing out his 1953 models, Trailer Maker MacDonald was reinforcing his position as top man in an industry which in 22 years has grown from almost nothing to a $248 million annual gross. MacDonald typifies the trend. A onetime bus driver, he bought a trailer company in Chicago in 1945, grossed $300,000 the first year. Now he owns seven companies that will gross an estimated $22 million in 1952, with almost 10% of the market...