Word: midget
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, Boston's radioactive, midget had chain-reacted into a million-a-year business. Tracerlab's shy, ascetic president, William E. Barbour Jr., 39, announced that with the new "Beta Gauge," an atomic method to help control production by measuring the thickness of industrial products, Tracerlab had moved from a laboratory-type company into an industrial...
...Observatory spotted a thin streak made by a rapidly moving object. When the streak, in slightly different positions, showed up on later photographs, the astronomers were sure they had seen something new. Last week Drs. Seth B. Nicholson and Robert S. Richardson announced that the streak was an asteroid (midget planet) only nine-tenths of a mile in diameter and about 8,000,000 miles away from the earth...
Victoria, not keen on racing, always kept up the tradition of royal sponsorship of Ascot meets. She once asked the midget jockey Bell how much he weighed. Staunchly, little Bell replied: "My master says I'm never to tell my weight." (He weighed...
...business as a whole appears to be on the upgrade. Most of them are three-or four-man affairs. The half-dozen or so outfits in the field each print anywhere from two to a dozen books a year. Press runs usually hover around 5,000. Yet such midget firms as Prime Press in Philadelphia, Fantasy Press in Reading, Pa. and Shasta Press in Chicago eke out profits from their small printings, for two reasons: 1) they keep advertising and other overhead costs to a minimum, and 2) they can count on regular patronage from their own rabid fans...
Shirley Temple would reach 21 this week and thus qualify to receive some of the big money she earned as a child cinemactress, including $11,000 won in a libel suit from an English paper that once described her as a 30-year-old midget...