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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Ruth Harkness, 46, first person to capture a live giant panda; of acute alcoholism; in a Pittsburgh hotel bathtub. When in 1935 oil-heir husband William Hale Harkness Jr. died of cancer in Shanghai, spunky Manhattan Dress Designer Ruth promptly sailed off to continue his interrupted giant panda hunt, found a one-pound baby panda nestled in a Tibetan tree trunk, brought it back to Chicago's Brookfield...
...right to issue instructions" to employers on how to run their business? Yes, said Papa, it was all true. Missouri's Representative Max Schwabe asked Papa if he did not think so much power was dangerous. Said Papa: "I think it's dangerous-I use the first person singular- for me to have that much power." However, he hastily added, he had never used his power to close a business and did not intend...
...basic old age pension rate is raised 20%-from $25 to $30 a month. (To be eligible, a person must be 70 years old, have lived in Canada at least 20 years...
...telephone got busy with readers wanting to know more about the ultrasonic siren and its inventor. The Public Library called to say that they were getting inquiries for Audio Engineering but couldn't locate it on any of their lists. The president of Ultrasonic Corp. turned up in person to get more information direct from us. He had read the story on the night train from Boston and had stopped by our office on arrival...
...soon afterward he discovered Matisse and Picasso. He and Gertrude had just settled down at 27 rue de Fleurus, the address Gertrude later made famous. But according to Leo she brought no pictures home until 1911 or 1912; he himself built up the Stein collection. "I was the only person anywhere, so far as I know, who in those early days recognized Picasso and Matisse...