Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each department of the store is featured the outstanding and best known lines in the clothing and haberdashery field. Included in this line are Fashion Park Clothes, Florsheim Shoes, Lee Hats, Swank Jewelry, Monito and Imported Hosiery, Alpacuna O'Coats, Jayson Shirts, Magregor Sportswear, Mark Cross Gloves, Taylor Shoes, Pioneer Suspenders, Belts and Garters, BVD Underwear, Bass Shoes and Ski Boots...
This week hundreds of scientists, inventors, engineers and industrialists assembled in Washington to observe the centennial of the U. S. Patent Office as an autonomous organization. Lionized were six famed inventors: Orville Wright; Simon Lake, pioneer submarine experimenter who is currently trying to salvage $4,000,000 in gold from the hulk of an old British frigate at the bottom of New York's East River; Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, RCA-Victor television ace; William David Coolidge, General Electric's No. 1 x-ray researcher; Lee De Forest, inventor of the audion radio tube; and Leo Hendrick Baekeland, inventor...
Last week the Swedish Royal Academy of Science awarded its 1936 Nobel Prize for Chemistry to a profound student of molecular structure, Professor Peter Joseph Wilhelm Debye, 52, of Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics. The Prize for Physics was divided between a pioneer cosmic ray researcher, Professor Victor Franz Hess, 53, of Austria's Innsbruck University, and 31-year-old Professor Carl David Anderson of California Institute of Technology, discoverer of a fundamental particle of matter, the positive electron. Prizeman Debye will receive about $40,000, Prizemen Anderson & Hess each half that...
...disease; in Grosse Pointe, Mich. For Packard's Wartime airplane plant he developed the U. S. Army's Selfridge Field air base. For motorists he pushed to completion the Atlantic City-to- Oakland Lincoln Highway (U. S. Route 30), first U. S. transcontinental hard-surfaced highway. A pioneer skeet shooter, he once held a world record of 157 consecutive breaks...
...FUTURE OF LIBERTY - George Soule-Macmillan ($2). A reasoned challenge to Right and Left advocates of dictatorship, by a pioneer advocate of U. S. "social-planning...