Word: panning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...diggings don't pan out, the minimum Alaskan construction work pay is now $3.02 an hour...
...Supreme Court has recently ruled that a $25,000 award won by a former Brigham Young University music professor was subject to a federal income tax. Leroy J. Robertson won the prize in '47 in a Pan-American Symphony contest...
...nerves leading out of a pit organ and connected it through an electrode to an apparatus that amplified and recorded its electrical impulses. When they blindfolded the snake but did not excite it otherwise, the sound that came from the amplifier sounded "like grease cooking slowly in a pan." But when Dr. Bullock moved his warm hand near the snake's pit, the sizzling sound increased "as if you had turned the heat up." A lighted match or cigarette produced the same effect. On the other hand, a cold object, such as an ice cube, cut the sizzling down...
...such smart merchandising, Keating has built up a line of 2,000 products ranging from a 5? pie pan to a $39 set of stainless steel "Diamondware" table service. Last year his Ekco Products Co. sold 375,000 egg beaters, 10½ million kitchen knives, 2,500,000 rubber-ended bottle stoppers, 1.5 million pots & pans and 12 million can openers. Disguised under such brand names as A. & J., Flint and Ovenex, Ekco Products brought in a 1951 gross of $35 million...
Died. James Murchie Eaton, 64, pioneer airline organizer and vice president of American Overseas Airlines (until it was sold to Pan American World Airways in 1950); in Manhattan...