Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ramo-Wooldridge intellectual parallelism is matched by their careers. Both were born in the same month of the same year-Wooldridge on May 30, 1913, at Chickasha, Okla., the son of an independent oil broker, Ramo on May 7, 1913, the son of a Salt Lake City store owner. Both skipped grades in grammar school, peddied magazines for pocket money and excelled in their classes. Wooldridge graduated from high school at 14 and with honors from the University of Oklahoma; Ramo graduated from the University of Utah. Both went on to Caltech, where they won Ph.D.s...
...transistorized brain can multiply as rapidly (4,000 calculations per second) and remember as many instructions (2,000) as a room-sized computer of 19 tons. Late this summer R-W will put on the market a civilian cousin, which it hopes will completely automate such industries as oil refining, chemicals, metals, drugs, paper, soap and beer. Price of the computer...
...Consolidated Electrodynamics started out in 1937 to make instruments for oil exploration, never even reached $ 1,000,000 annually until it got into West Coast electronics. Now, under President Hugh F. Colvin, it makes electronic spectrometers to analyze gases in petrochemical plants, recording oscillographs to measure strain in auto-and steelmaking processes, a complete line of "Datatape'' magnetic recording systems to preserve missile and aircraft flight-test data. Result: sales jumped from $924,000 in 1946 to $25 million in 1956, will hit $35 million this year. The company's stock, which sold for $4 a share...
IRRADIATED COAL DUST is being tried as fuel by Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad. Working to develop atomic locomotive company found that gamma rays can dissolve crushed coal to such fineness that when it is added to diesel oil it burns up completely, increases oil's energy content. Railroad figures atomic coal dust could cut fuel bill by about It a gallon...
Died. Roland H. Clark, 83, author (Gunner's Dawn, Stray Shots) and hunter-artist whose realistic etchings, watercolors and oil paintings of wild fowl made him a favorite with sportsmen; in Norwalk, Conn...