Word: palming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congress this week, asking leave to 1) share U.S. atomic information with other NATO countries, and 2) permit private industry to develop atomic energy for peaceful purposes. ¶ Announced that he and the First Lady would leave this week for a flying, five-day work-and-play vacation in Palm Springs, Calif, as the guests of his old friend Paul G. Hoffman...
...Imperious Demand." Young heard the news at his winter home in Palm Beach, Fla., and said: "I am really basically gratified. I'd rather have my own board of directors than work with the present one." He blamed the turndown on "Morgan interests" on the board...
...Palm Beach, more than 30 years after she had taught him "the basic principles of good Americanism." General Carlos P. Romulo, the Philippines' chief U.N. delegate, happily hugged his first American teacher, Mrs. Leo L. Grove, who had not seen Carlos since he was a prize pupil back in the islands...
Other atomic batteries have already found jobs. For two years, Radiation Research Corp. of West Palm Beach has been producing small quantities of "At-bee" batteries for radiation-detection instruments. The Atbee produces a smaller current at a higher voltage. It also gets its power from Strontium 90, and its producers say that its efficiency is the same. Unlike the RCAmen, they think it will be a long time before atomic batteries are used by the public...
Would televiewers, accustomed to free shows, pay for them? Pay-as-you-see proponents think the answer is being given in an FCC-approved test going on in Palm Springs. Calif. More than 70 TV sets were equipped with Telemeter, and for 30 days set owners were offered such attractions as the Notre Dame v. U.S.C. football game and first-run movies (Forever Female, Here Come the Girls') simultaneously with their first showing in the local movie houses. First-run pictures (at $1.35) were an 80% sellout; all Telemeter programs drew an average "attendance" of 60%. Telemeters...