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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Schmidt telescope was invented by Estonian-born Bernhard Schmidt (1879-1935). Scientist Schmidt spent years studying the failings of refracting (lens) telescopes and reflecting (mirror) telescopes. Finally he devised a sort of compromise. His telescope has a concave spherical mirror, which is much easier to make than the parabolic mirror of a reflecting telescope. In front of it, to bring the light to a focus without "spherical aberration," is a correcting plate so slightly curved that it looks like plain sheet glass. The Schmidt telescope's advantage: it can take pictures of large patches of sky and have them...
...happened to the investors' $28 million? Court-appointed trustees were still trying to find out. So far they had found few assets-an engine plant at Syracuse which Tucker had bought, a handful of lathes in the Government-owned plant at Chicago where he had said he would make cars, and some 25 hand-built Tucker autos, some with motors lifted from the cars of other manufacturers. There was only about $100,000 cash on hand...
...ailing, had gone West for his health from Hamilton, Mo., where he grew up in poverty on the farm of his father, an unpaid Baptist preacher. From the age of eight, young J.C. had to buy his own clothes; at 19 heard his dying father murmur: "Jim will make it. I like the way he has started...
...tiny Kemmerer, just about everybody bought on credit, hence paid high prices. Jim Penney had a better idea: cash on the barrelhead. More important, at a time when most small-town retailers firmly believed it was good business to make a big profit on small volume, Penney subscribed to a still revolutionary idea; he wanted to make a small profit on each item, thus build big volume and a big profit...
...with a bullet wound in his hip, had criticized his wife's cooking; she took five shots at him with a .38 revolver. In Vancouver, B.C., Mrs. Constance McLeod got a divorce after testifying that her husband bit a piece out of their marriage certificate and threatened to make her eat the rest...