Word: midgeter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mixi. A midget-sized (1 pt.) portable plastic mixer for cocktails, milk shakes, etc. will be put on sale by the Sibert Mfg. Co., Newark. The mixer will run for four months of normal use on two flashlight batteries. Price...
...Make Some Money." Raytheon was founded in 1922 by famed Massachusetts Institute of Technology Scientist Vannevar Bush and his onetime Tufts roommate, Laurence K. Marshall. It remained a midget until World War II, when its sales rocketed from $4,400,000 to $173 million. But the firm came so near to disaster in the postwar defense slump that its directors called in Yankee Banker Charles Francis Adams, of the famed Massachusetts Adamses, to put it back in shape. (Marshall resigned in 1948.) Adams found a storehouse of talented scientists. But they loved research more for its own sake than...
...Irish army, writes with the kind of detachment that is unwelcome in partisan and partitioned Ireland. He puts his novel in one of Northern Ireland's "lost six counties" (Tyrone) where those of the Protestant majority have stubbornly held to their British loyalties, their Orange Lodges and their midget state in the face of the Catholic minority. Novelist Roth deals with the minority. His village stage is a stony place called Duncrana, and the leading man on that stage is both a teetotaler and an informer-terrible things to be. Unlike O'Flaherty's "Gypo," who betrays...
...first (in 1939) rocket plane (the He 176) and jet-propelled aircraft (the He 178), a shrewd mastermind of Luftwaffe production whose farseeing predictions and plans were thumbed down by Hitler and Goring; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Stuttgart, West Germany. Denazified in 1949, Heinkel made motor scooters and midget cars, recently announced plans to go back into big-time planemaking with Willi Messerschmitt...
...grown from a $14 million midget in 1946 to a $1.5 billion giant-a hundredfold sales increase. From two plants employing 3,500 people, it has spread across the U.S. and all the Western Hemisphere into more than 100 plants with upwards of 100,000 workers...