Word: radio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coalition found a really emotion-charged issue to fight about: Israel's deal to sell $3,300,000 worth of grenade launchers to West Germany (TIME, July 6). This is a lively subject in a nation that remembers Nazi concentration camps and frowns on playing Wagner on the radio...
...that's what counts most." The Prime Minister can expect continuing help from India in money and technicians because Nepal, on the border of Tibet, is a strategic mountain barrier to Red Chinese expansion. The U.S. is supporting road-building projects, developing civil aviation, and setting up a radio communication net to bring Katmandu into verbal contact with the rest of the country. The Soviet Union has promised Nepal a new hydroelectric plant and factories for refining sugar and making cigarettes. Both the Soviet Union and the U.S. are rushing to get into Katmandu first with a fully staffed...
Most of the companies started in small lofts, warehouses or garages in the commercial districts of Boston or Cambridge, looked very much like the radio-repair shops and jobbers that surrounded them. To finance samples of new products, the founders dug into personal savings or tapped friends. Cash came from such risk-minded organizations as American Research & Development Corp., which sponsored many science companies (High Voltage, Tracerlab), and from individual investor groups such as those of Laurance Rockefeller, who now is sponsoring one of 128's newest, Geophysics Corp. of America. As the prototype models succeeded, the young companies...
...locate and trace hydrogen clouds several hundred thousand light years distant from earth. This resulted in no less than a remapping of the solar system. With a fellow scientist's $1,000 and his own theories, Ewen started his company in 1952. turned out radiometers (receiving systems for radio telescopes), radio sextants, microwave components. Last year Ewen Knight chalked up $2,000,000 in sales, expects $3,500,000 this year...
Died. Alfred Justin McCosker, 72, cofounder and onetime (1934-47) board chairman of the Mutual Broadcasting System, a director in radio's early days (of Newark station WOR) who introduced bedtime stories, setting-up exercises, Hollywood gossip-coaxed Charlie Chaplin to his first radio performance; of a heart attack; in Miami...