Word: mcdonald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young salesman, Eugene F. McDonald Jr. hurt his head in an auto accident and became deaf in one ear. When he became the hard-driving boss of Chicago's Zenith Radio Corp., one of the biggest U.S. radiomakers, McDonald was shocked at the price of hearing aids. If a complete radio receiver sold for only $29, why should a simple amplifier (only part of a radio) cost more than six times as much? McDonald thought he could produce hearing aids as cheaply as radios and make them a profitable sideline...
Last week McDonald was sure that he had finally tuned in on his market. He announced that Zenith's hearing-aid division had chalked up a handsome profit, though he was mum on the figures (they "were too good to say anything about to competitors...
...Francis C. McDonald, professor of Pediatrics at Tufts, conducts two sessions a week while a doctor from the local Clinic directs a third. The purpose of the new addition to the Clinic is more of a research nature, for the small, closely-knitted Harvardevens community affords an excellent opportunity for close study, whereas Cambridge is more un-integrated and inconvenient for research...
...States Lines' S.S. America docked in New York with a sizzling labor dispute aboard, company officials prepared for the worst. The union's delegate, a wiry, intense ship's electrician named Walter Avellar, had served an ultimatum: either the company fired Chief Crew Steward W. S. McDonald and reinstated two seamen, or the ship would not sail. Roared grim-jawed, grim-tempered Commodore Harry Manning: "They can tie this ship up until hell freezes over, as far as I am concerned. The time has come to find out who runs the ship, the delegate-commissar...
Next, Kuiper examined the greenish areas. Their spectra indicated that they could not be vegetation like trees or grass. But they might be lowly lichens like those that grow on the dry rocks near McDonald Observatory. Lichens need no water in liquid form. Martian lichenlike plants might get enough water out of vapor from the icecaps, which evaporate without melting...