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...Douglas, which makes its own). Garrett's company branched out into superchargers and electronic equipment, turned out $112 million of World War II equipment and had 5,000 employees at its wartime peak. At war's end, he had to trim his payroll to 600, and scratch for new ways to boost business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Mighty Mite | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

...herself. A yelling crowd was gathering in the street below. Mrs. Randall dropped the baby's blanket to three men and a woman on the sidewalk and called to them to hold it up. She dropped her children one by one. The first three landed without a scratch. But the fourth, James, who was eight, was heavy. He slipped from the blanket and hit the sidewalk-safe, but bruised and bawling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Don't Jump! | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

...would move to industrial Winston-Salem. Then Charles Babcock, a Reynolds inlaw, offered a 350-acre site. Wake Forest took one look at its own puny campus (25 acres), decided to accept, and set out to raise the money on its own to build a whole new college from scratch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Change of Address | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

Shepard, starting from scratch this year with very few early candidates, has developed a good Jayvee team built around some promising sophomores from last year's Yardling eleven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Junior Varsity Eleven to Meet Fort Devena Team Away Today | 10/6/1951 | See Source »

...Queney and Holmboe will do most of their work on the ground with pencils and scratch pad. The chief practical scientist of the airwave project is German-born Dr. Joachim Kuettner, former world record glider pilot, who will fly and watch others fly into the waves themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Wild Winds | 10/1/1951 | See Source »

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