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...heat of debate, Wisconsin's butter-loving Alexander Wiley pleaded with his colleagues to remember that "the dairy cow is the foster mother of the race." The Senate granted only one concession to the butter makers: oleo would have to be sold in triangular instead of rectangular packages...
...television-makers showed off their new 1950 models last week, Chicago's Hallicrafters Co., which is small in size but big in know-how, stole a march on the industry. It showed the first set with a rectangular picture tube. Since the TV broadcast image is also rectangular, the new tube has two advantages over the old round tube. It permits the whole tube-face to be utilized, and it saves about one-half in cabinet space. Boasted Hallicrafters' President William J. Halligan: "This will be the only revolutionary thing in television this year...
...monopoly on the revolution. The tube, developed by American Structural Products Co. (a subsidiary of Owens-Illinois Glass Co.), and now being manufactured by several other companies, was on sale to all comers. Other makers would soon be using it, and Motorola was ready to show its first rectangular tube set this week. Hallicrafters had simply moved faster than anybody else in getting the new picture tube development across to the public. Grinned President Bill Halligan: "That's because we're smaller than the big boys. We're faster on our feet...
...Rate Battle. Last year, when production rose to 87,000 sets, Hallicrafters grossed $15.5 million. To meet the expected demand for his new rectangular-tube set, Halligan last week leased extra factory space, planned to boost his 1950 production 95% to 170,000 sets, and to cut prices. His rectangular 16-in.-screen mahogany table model was tagged at $279.95, or $40 cheaper than last year's round-tube model...
...desert, a palace in Portugal or an old house in Constantinople. He carried around with him a trunkful of objets d'art, including a bronze bull, his own novels bound in white vellum, some colored quill-pens, a "vast tortoiseshell crucifix" and stacks of "those large blue rectangular postcards" on which he wrote both his novels and correspondence ("Tomorrow I go to Hayti," crooned one such card to Sir Osbert. "They say the President is a Perfect Dear...