Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fernando Valley. He started out there in 1935 with a shopping throwaway, shrewdly built it up into three free newspapers for the booming region's war workers. With his profits at war's end, he started the San Diego Daily Journal and radio station KSDJ, overnight made them big moneymakers, and sold them for more than $1,000,000 in 1948 when he ran for Congress for the first time. Twice elected, once by the biggest plurality ever rolled up in San Diego County, he tried unsuccessfully last year for the Senate against Republican William Knowland, now Senate...
...luck dominate every page. But Tom Jr. has it all over his proud dad as an inventor. Where the old hero aroused the admiration of his fans by changing the gear ratio to get unheard-of speed out of his motorcycle, his son completes a revolutionary radioactivity detector overnight. In 1910, Tom had his readers chewing their nails when he ascended in a crude dirigible. In 1954's Tom Swift and His Flying Lab, the alert hero finds the world's greatest uranium deposits, battles international spy rings and gangsters instead of the tramps and crude thieves...
...expected the new anti-dumping rules to restore textile prosperity overnight. It was doubtful whether that could be accomplished even by higher tariffs and more protection-devices which Canada criticizes in other nations, and for which Canadian consumers would foot the bill. But, with the jobs of 100,000 workers at stake, the government may have to try just such unpalatable measures...
Remembering Freddie. In exile in London. Mutesa II last week proved almost as popular in Britain as he became overnight in his own country. Englishmen remembered him from his Cambridge days when his tall, dandified figure, complete with tightly furled umbrella and dudish Edwardian jacket, was a familiar sight, in Mayfairs poshest bars. His friends called him Freddie, and last week the name caught on all over Britain. Amply subsidized by the British government, Freddie took a suite in the Savoy, bought a hat and slipped out to see his old friends...
...Better yet, doctors from Manhattan's Memorial Center demonstrated a promising and simple procedure for detecting lung cancers early. With a deep cough, the patient brings up sputum into a little bottle of jsopropyl alcohol. (He can take the bottle home overnight.) A Papanicolaou smear (TIME, Aug. 21, 1950) shows whether cancerous cells are present. Remote general practitioners can use the technique if they mail the bottle to a qualified laboratory...