Word: minne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME'S thanks to Dewey and Almy Chemical Co. for Professor Piccard's account of his Rochester, Minn, balloon ascension, which follows...
University of Minnesota Institute of Technology Minneapolis, Minn...
...William James and Charles Horace Mayo, best-known U. S. medical team, dread publicity. It hurts business at their expensive clinic in remote Rochester, Minn, where they and the 400 doctors whom they employ treat more than 700 new sick people every day and where in a few weeks they expect to work on their 1,000,000th patient. Essentially the Mayo brothers care little for wealth. Although they charge every patient precisely according to national credit agencies' reports, one fourth of the Mayo patients are worth nothing and pay no fees. The Mayo Clinic is to be donated...
...challenged Marmola's advertising but the Supreme Court held that FTC was not set up for the purpose of "preserving the business of one knave from the unfair competition of another." Typical of FTC trivia last week were cease-&-desist orders against: 1) Coolerator Co. of Duluth, Minn, (iceboxes ) for offensive advertising including disparaging observations on electric refrigerators; 2) Tolpin Studios, Inc.. of Chicago for using the word "Limoges" on china which did not come from Limoges. France; and 3) Strongman Robert C. Hoffman of York, Pa. for fraudulent advertising and belittling his competitor, Manhattan's Strongman...
...commission with a pistol. He thought 2,000 four-foot rubber balloons would be enough for a record flight. Last week's ascent, using only 80 balloons, was in the nature of an experiment to test the efficacy of the method. Prof. Piccard took off from Rochester, Minn., ascended to 11,000 ft., came down six hours later no miles away, avoiding the Mississippi River but hitting a tree. He had three methods of releasing or destroying balloons: 1) scissors to cut the balloon cords; 2) explosives on the balloon cords; 3) a .22 calibre pistol. Before landing...