Word: pioneers
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...Reminder. Yet those who call this surge "hysterical preservation" cannot deny the worth of saving Washington's Georgetown, Annapolis' colonial waterfront, Alexander Hamilton's New York City home, Frank Lloyd Wright's Chicago houses, the Spanish architecture of Santa Fe, Seattle's Pioneer Square, Old Salem, N.C., or even the sod hut that was once a post office in Killdeer, N. Dak. From its Washington headquarters in Decatur House, Biddle's National Trust not only acts as catalyst for such projects but also runs nine landmarks...
Died. Harry Steenbock, 81, longtime (1908-56) University of Wisconsin research chemist and pioneer in vitamin D-enriched foods; of a heart attack; in Madison, Wis. In 1924, Steenbock discovered that vitamin D could be "activated" with ultraviolet rays from a quartz-vapor lamp, quickly treated milk and other foods to provide the first new source of the rickets-preventing "sun vitamin" since cod-liver oil. His patents could have made him wealthy, but instead he helped set up a foundation to handle royalties, which netted $10,000,000 for the university before a federal court in 1945 ruled...
...professor emeritus at Harvard, he has won a number of national awards for his research into the chemical causes of cancer, and was a member of the U.S. Surgeon General's committee that issued the 1964 report linking cigarette smoke with the disease. Fieser was also a pioneer in developing laboratory production of vitamin K, the body's blood-clotting agent, and antimalarial drugs. Despite these impressive credentials of service to mankind, he has lately received a number of angry letters. Reason: back in 1943, Fieser invented napalm...
That statistical evidence can be quite deceiving. After a pioneer era of hard drinking and a ridiculous interlude of prohibition, the U.S. is neither wet nor dry but just moist. In 1860, it consumed 3.25 gallons of distilled spirits per capita; today that figure is only slightly more than 1.5 gallons. What has happened is that per-capita wine consumption has risen from one-third gallon to nearly one gallon a year; the consumption of malt liquors (beer and ale) from about three gallons to more than 16. Indeed, beer, which contains only 4% alcohol, as against 12% for table...
...five major newsreel companies in business eleven years ago, Warner Bros, (which had bought the name and original 1898 footage of Pioneer Charles Pathe) was the first to go, in 1956. A year later, Paramount News ("The Eyes and Ears of the World") went under; its library, 10 million feet of film dating from 1928, was sold to a TV film distributor. Movietone News (20th Century-Fox) stopped producing newsreels for the U.S. in 1963, though it continues to send them abroad...