Word: phasing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Andrew Jackson Higgins, 65, rough & ready boss of Higgins, Inc., designers and makers of the snub-nosed landing craft that saw service in every theater of World War II; of complications resulting from stomach ulcers; in New Orleans. Bluff, tough "A.J." personally supervised every phase of his business, posted a sign in the plant: "Any body caught stealing tools from this yard won't get fired-he'll go to the hospital . . . A.J.H." With World War II, Higgins skyrocketed with war orders to an annual volume of $120 million...
SPOCK calls his lifework "preventive psychiatry." His book on baby care was conceived as a phase of that work and, like half a dozen other projects, was carried out in his spare time. He started it during a summer vacation and worked on it practically every night for two years, from nine until after midnight, dictating to his wife to give it an easy, conversational tone. He finished it after joining the Navy in 1944 as a psychiatrist in charge of severe disciplinary cases. When he got his overseas orders, the book had still to be indexed. The publishers urged...
California Conquest (Columbia). Between 1825 and 1841, Mexico-ruled California was torn by internal strife, and Russia, France, England and the U.S. were trying to take over the territory. Dramatizing this little-known phase of history, California Conquest adds a dash of Technicolor and several dashes of dramatic license to the facts. Cornel Wilde is a romantic Spanish don who is in favor of U.S. annexation. To prevent the Russians from worming their way into the orange groves, he and tomboyish Teresa Wright work their way into the bandit forces of toothy, grinning Alfonso Bedoya...
...longfelt need, and as a direct result of the closing of the Boston Arena's ice surface to college hockey. Alexander H. Bright '19 spokesman for the group and former graduate president of the Varsity Club, yesterday stated that the drive is now in its most crucial phase, and that many donations would be greatly appreciated at this time...
...join with four other major utilities* to back the Capehart-Miller bill, which would let them do the job, they presented some impressive arguments. Their know-how and existing facilities in the area, they said, would keep the project millions below the Government cost, and finish the first phase three years ahead of the Government. Private rates would be slightly higher than the Government's, but only because the companies would pay $23 million a year in municipal, state and federal taxes. The Government's lower power rates would simply be subsidized by taxpayers. The Government...