Word: procession
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arthur M. Schlesinger* worked a variation on an old sport page diversion. He asked 55 authorities on American history to pick a kind of alltime, all-star list of U.S. Presidents. The results, listed last week in an article in LIFE, were a heartening commentary on the democratic electoral process. The U.S., in the opinion of the experts, had produced six great Presidents and only two downright failures...
Charged Powder. The "revolution" was electronic "dry writing," or Xerography.* The complicated process was based on the long known fact that some materials are "photoconductive," i.e., become conductors of electricity when exposed to light. Xerography uses such a plate charged with static electricity. When the plate is exposed to light, the charge is released from all parts of the plate except those shaded by the image to be reproduced. The plate is then dusted with a charged powder which clings to the shaded, or image, part of the plate. When a piece of paper (or any other material) is placed...
Xerography's inventor, Chester F. Carlson, 42, a New York patent attorney and physicist, produced his first Xerographic image in 1938. Company after company turned down the process until, in 1944, the Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio finally took on the expensive job of perfecting...
Then Rochester's Haloid Co., manufacturers of photographic supplies, got interested. It financed the Xerography research at Battelle in return for the exclusive commercial rights to the process...
...School faculty, which could not produce a Wallace supporter. He expressed doubt whether he "had been summoned as a sacrificial lamb or as a prophet," but said he would assume the latter. His statement of the Progressive theory was based on the grounds that "society is essentially a process of getting something for nothing...