Word: midgeter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coolers and sundry other gadgets, Powel Crosley Jr.'s first love was always the automobile. Seven years ago, the 6 ft. 4 in. Cincinnati millionaire decided to satisfy his passion. For $19 million he sold all his other interests to Aviation Corp. (now Avco), concentrated on making midget Crosley autos. His goal was to produce 150,000 cars a year, eventually bring the price down to $500. But Crosley fell far short of the mark...
...mass, however, the star is no midget. Astronomer Luyten figures that it is 40% heavier than the sun. A cubic inch of its densely packed matter would weigh something like 1,000-tons, and if a 150-lb. man could stand on its surface, his body would weigh 300,000 tons...
...measured and treated, the better. The trouble is that methods of measuring deafness which work well enough with adults are of little use with the very young. At the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, doctors are using a method which gets around this difficulty by combining a midget electric shock and Pavlov's psychology of conditioning...
...Midgets & Managers. The job is, in a sense, the biggest challenge in baseball. Some people maintain - and attendance figures bear them out - that St. Louis cannot support two major-league teams. For years, the American League Browns, winners of one pennant (1944) in 50 years, have barely kept out of the red. Rival American League teams, including such drawing cards as the New York Yankees, lose money on the trip to St. Louis. Last year, after effervescent Bill Veeck (rhymes with heck) bought the doormat Browns, things began to change. Using the showman stunts that brought fans out in droves...
...confidence" in the subcommittee, he said, but he added with wondrous logic that it ought to continue its work as a matter of principle. Then, as usual, he counterattacked: he challenged the Senate to order a similar investigation of his favorite enemy, Senator William Benton, the "odd little mental midget" from Connecticut, whose charges originally prompted the Senate to investigate McCarthy...