Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...among the most violent of the New Deal's "young Turks," but his personal life has been in every instance conservatively planned. A mild man who chews his cigars, wears horn-rimmed spectacles and sports a zippered sport jacket on the job. Schwellenbach is studious by temperament but short of temper; judicial-minded but a bear at partisan politics; labor-minded but with a sense of fairness to industry. He is also a man who did not want the job of Labor Secretary: he took it on the urging of his old Senate crony, now the President...
...system works only on very short waves, which cannot be received much beyond the horizon. But this does not worry its developer, which has great hopes for P.T.M. Relayed cross-country by parabolic wave reflectors, it may replace expensive and troublesome long-distance telephone wires...
Hawaii's pineapples normally ripen only during three summer months-a short season which puts a costly strain on harvest labor and canneries. Acetylene helped a little, but not enough. Recently, some growers have switched to the long-named chemicals which agricultural scientists call plant hormones (e.g., alpha-naphthalene-acetic-acid). Most plant hormones are still experimental and not in general use, but they are currently the biggest excitement in agricultural science. By all reports, they are working like Disney magic in Technicolor...
...fall of 1874, a young man named William Ernest Henley, son of a Gloucester bookseller, appeared before Lister and placed his life in the experimenter's hands. At 25, Henley was dying of tuberculosis. The disease had settled in his lower legs, which were short and withered, although his torso and thighs were those of a giant. One foot had already been amputated; London surgeons wanted to amputate the other...
...After a short course in a Nazi spy academy, Dietrich was sent back to the U.S. He soon found himself knee-deep in sleazy, shifty-eyed characters who were nibbling away at what this film calls the Government's Process 97 (construction of the atomic bomb...