Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stanley Cobb '10, founder and first cheif of Psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital and a pioneer in neuropathological research, died yesterday after a long illness...
...angstrom is equal to one hundred-millionth of a centimeter and is used to measure the length of light waves. The word has nothing to do with Angst, but pays tribute to Pioneer Spectroscopist Anders Angstrom...
...first glance, that would seem to bolster the case for conglomerates, since such acquisition-minded companies argue that their diversification activities are the best hedge against cyclical swings in a single industry. But conglomerates can have slumps of their own. Litton Industries, a pioneer that chalked up an impressive round of sales and earnings records during fiscal 1967, has announced that its latest quarterly profits (for the three-month period ending Jan. 31) will be "substantially lower" than expected. Much of the blame was laid on management "deficiencies," and Litton said that the problem has now been corrected...
...Princeton during the 1930s, Infeld helped his friend Albert Einstein develop the general theory of relativity; with Einstein he also shared the work of writing The Evolution of Physics, a 1938 text so fascinating to laymen that it hit the bestseller lists. At the University of Toronto, Infeld did pioneer work on the unified-field theory of magnetism and gravitation; then, in 1950, he suddenly returned home to teach-and proved something of a problem to the Communists, often criticizing Warsaw's scientific censorship...
...pioneer in the office copying field, American Photocopy Equipment Co. was a Wall Street favorite back in the 1950s. Then it faded fast. Trouble was, while the Evanston, Ill., firm had scored its success with machines that turned out wet copies, other companies-notably Xerox-were building huge new markets with "dry" electrostatic copiers requiring no messy chemical developers. APECO tried to do the same, but its first electrostatic machines were plagued by costly production defects. From a 1961 high of $4,925,000, its profits went downhill, and in 1966 the firm finished with a deficit...