Word: martin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mickey Mouse, Popeye; with cocktails it was Lucille Ball in Lucy or Ann (Private Secretary) Sothern; with the bedtime mild-and-bitter came OSS, or Lee Marvin's M Squad. On commercial channels in the south, Midlands, and north, screens flashed with Wild Bill Hickok, Lassie. Joe Friday, Martin Kane or Flash Gordon...
...Concord shells out $6,500 for one night of Berle; the G imports Pat Suzuki, Robert Merrill, George Jessel (its smaller nightclub keeps its budget down to $2,000 for individual acts). There are some 50 hotels in the Belt, and top entertainers-Georgia Gibbs, Sammy Davis Jr., Tony Martin, Red Buttons-make the rounds. Says Comedian Gene Baylos, who is spending the summer playing the Belt: "You're facing the toughest audience. They become connoisseurs, and they're very critical. Hell, they've seen everybody...
...postwar rate of growth of the U.S. economy has been "materially greater" than Government statistics show. So, last week, said Federal Reserve Board Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. as he announced a revision of FRB's index of industrial production, the first since...
...Chairman Martin pointed out that the index of industrial growth is a more significant indication of the economy's bustle than many other indicators, such as gross national product. It is a pure index of real production, does not include the inflationary rise in prices, which often makes the rise in other indexes seem greater than it actually is. Said Martin: "As the structure of the economy keeps changing, the job of combining measures of its many parts into a single index cannot be done without having to make major revisions every few years." With increasing use of electronic...
...pressure combustion chamber, the components, e.g., ammonium perchlorate and polystyrene, turn to gases that mix in a thin layer on its surface. Part of the heat generated strikes back to the fuel, gasifies more of it, and so keeps the flame burning. When this characteristic was discovered by Dr. Martin Summerfield of Princeton, the next step was to look for something that would control the gas mixture. A faster mixing would increase the burning rate, while slower mixing would decrease it. If the control were precise enough, scientists would then have what amounts to a throttle for solid fuels...