Word: seems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dreaming . . .' remember that almost all modern inventions, including radio, television, the atomic bomb, airplanes, autos, etc. were once dreams . . . Science fiction is where many scientists and engineers dream ... If an engineer, for example, has an idea which does not, at the moment, seem practical, he can write a story about it. Someone else, reading the story, might contribute a further step in the realization of the dream. But if that same engineer should write the "impossible" idea into a technical article, it probably would not be published, and if published, might mean his professional ruin . . . Louis E. GARNER...
...Champion Palooka's wedding to Cheese Heiress Ann Howe will be the marriage of the year -after one of the longest engagements on record. For 18 years, Cartoonist Fisher has tantalized his readers by discovering new, insuperable obstacles to the Howe-Palooka nuptials every time the perfect lovers seem about to get hitched. This week he will bow to "popular demand" and draw the knot in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Fisher's home town. Says married & divorced Ham Fisher, who takes Palooka as seriously as his most ardent fan: "They're going to be the ideally happy couple...
Though mildly successful, WCFL was not copied by other unions until the FCC's postwar decision to open a new band for FM transmitters made the gamble seem worthwhile. Publicity-conscious unions were in the forefront of the scrambling applicants for construction permits. In the past year, the United Auto Workers have gone on the air with station WDET in Detroit, and this month will open WCUO in Cleveland. The I.L.G.W.U. beams its message to the South through Chattanooga's WVUN, and last November invaded the West Coast with Los Angeles' KFMV, "the FM Voice of Southern...
...both the Jo'burg and London exchanges the great gold boom collapsed. Free State shares, which had started dropping on news of the false press report, plummeted to $2.62. It remained to be seen how much gold Milne's claim would finally yield. But Milne did not seem worried. He gave a cocktail party for 500 guests and expressed the hope that he could soon arrange for "quotation of my shares on the American market...
...widely publicized as an amphibian attraction,* and her special gifts are apparent when she is photographed in a swim suit or in a pool. But most of this film's action takes place in street dress, well away from the water. As a result, large chunks of it seem somewhat pointless...