Word: mm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this field of football movies as well as others, credit Harvard with a "first." For Claus Gelotte, Boston and Cambridge photo equipment retailer, started the business of capturing football contests on 16 mm. films 20 years ago on Soldiers Field...
...over an hour one night last week, U.S. Major General Arthur Harper, General Van Fleet's deputy, watched from a Kastoria window as the rebels lobbed sixty 75-mm. shells into the town. A direct hit through the window of a nearby hospital killed two soldiers and two nurses. The next day Americans asked why the city's lights had not been turned off during the shelling. The answer was fear of looting by neighbors. The Greek army's artillery did not answer the guerrillas until half an hour after the shelling had ended...
Five a Second. Chicago's Bell & Howell Co. (cameras) announced that it would put on sale this fall the world's most expensive still camera. Its "Foton" will take five 35-mm. pictures a second, sell for $700. Bell & Howell, which has found that "families of both low and high incomes now spend over $550" for movie equipment, hopes to sell 20,000 Fotons a year...
...examined them under the electron microscope. Some of them were full of tiny round specks not present in healthy nerves. By extracting the nerve samples at different times, the doctors proved that the particles crept slowly up the nerve from the point of entry. They moved about 2 mm. (1/12 inch) an hour-roughly the rate that polio infection is known to advance along nerves...
...blond, 40-year-old Albert Wadkins Moverley-was pitching in with the work on the new schoolhouse. Teacher Moverley will have a few modern gadgets to help him with his 25 charges that John Adams would never have thought possible on Pitcairn. Among them: electricity, radios, and a 16-mm. movie projector...