Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tennis matches saw Kirkland defeat Lowell, 4 to 1, and Winthrop beat Adams...
...Bridgeport Brass Co.'s DDT bug bomb was almost as good a friend as his rifle. When the war ended, the company dressed up its Aer-a-sol (DDT expelled by Freon gas) dispenser in civilian clothes, and struck a retail bonanza. Last week Bridgeport Brass thought it saw more pay dirt; it planned to apply the Aer-a-sol principle to dozens of other products...
...week, bushy-browed Edward J. Noble, who made a mint out of Life Savers, turned a businessman's hard and appraising eye on network television's prospects. Noble is chairman of American Broadcasting Co. and he was speaking to his company's stockholders. The way he saw it, TV was no way for a broadcaster to get rich quick and his stockholders should get that straight.* He was facing them at the first annual meeting since his privately owned ABC had sold 500,000 shares of stock to the public last year, partly to get capital...
Genial, bumbling Justin Miller, NAB's $75,000-a-year president, told the convention that he saw a faint light of hope. "I'm not so pessimistic as Wayne Coy or 'Deac' Aylesworth," he assured the delegates. "As long as radio profits are necessary to finance television, radio is not in immediate danger of giving...
...three-hour penicillin schedule. His fever promptly dropped, and he, too, began to beg to get out. But Strep throats are tricky things, and Stillman care is cautions. Smith stayed in the small respiratory ward three weeks; the first week was the best. He discovered a batch of jig-saw puzzles thoughtfully placed on a shelf in the ward, and completed the lot, though all were marked with "seven damn pieces missing" or similar discouraging comments...