Word: philadelphias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cigarette Stogie. Philadelphia's Stephano Brothers put on sale a cigar the size of a king-size cigarette. Price of pack of 20: 35?. Carton of ten packs costs $3.25, includes a plastic cigar holder...
Flying Jeep. First successful test of a military jeep-helicopter was made by Philadelphia's Piasecki Aircraft Corp., one of several companies competing for an Army order. The Piasecki craft can safely fly and hover under bridges or between buildings because its two rotors, horizontally placed front and back inside the fuselage, are completely shielded. The enclosed rotors create air columns, which are the force that actually moves the helicopter. Piasecki plans to produce a 150-m.p.h. civilian model seating four passengers...
...behalf of the Development Program, President Jordan will visit eight cities from Philadelphia to San Francisco before next February. He plans to speak before groups of students' parents, friends, and alumnae of Radcliffe...
Speaking before a Philadelphia meeting of the Association of American Medical Schools, Conant recommended that a national certificate be established which could assure the student, at the end of his sophomore year, of admission to medical school...
...members, whose names were first announced at Commencement, are Francis Boyer '16 of Philadelphia, James M. Faulkner '20 of Boston, Alexander M. White '25 of New York City, William G. Saltonstall '28 of Exeter, N.H., and Edwin A. Locke, Jr. '32 of Chicago...