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Leakproof Battery. A flashlight battery which is chemically sealed against leakage of its electrolytic materials was put on the market by Olin Industries, Inc. Sealed by a chemical, the battery does not require thick insulation or an outside metal jacket. Price: 15?, slightly higher than ordinary flashlight batteries...
...Chungking in November 1950, Methodist Missionary Francis Olin Stockwell, 52, from Perry, Okla., was just sitting down to Sunday supper when...
Composer Bloch was uncertain about the reception of his quartet when the Grillers played it for him two months ago, but he need not have worried. The audience thoroughly approved, and the New York Times's Olin Downes called it the "strongest, the most concentrated [and the most] spiritually mature production of his lifetime." Bloch was not so sure: "I cannot say if it is my best quartet...
After almost two years in a Communist jail (including 14 months in solitary confinement), the last U.S. Methodist missionary in China* came home last week. The Rev. Francis Olin Stockwell, 52, of Perry, Okla., first went to China in 1929, and for 15 years was treasurer of the West China Methodist Conference, with headquarters at Chengtu. In the fall of 1950, the Communists arrested him for "espionage." From then on, he was subjected to a determined "brainwashing" treatment...
Committee Chairman Olin Teague placed much of the blame for the trouble on the Veterans Administration, but it was clear that there was enough blame left over for unscrupulous home builders in major U.S. cities. Some builders have plied V.A. housing agents with gifts, thereby winning special consideration, unwarranted price increases or shortcuts on housing specifications. In the Washington, D.C. district, stated the committee, building costs have been inflated a fat 15% by the failure of housing officials to check on the real values of homes bought by veterans...