Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Busy Host. Next morning seven U.S. veterans of World War II, in Moscow for a reunion with Russian troops they had met when the two armies came together at the Elbe River, were ushered into the Kremlin for more of Khrushchev's camaraderie. He autographed their short-snorter bank notes, received with thanks a map showing the point where Soviet and American troops first met before V-E day. When Alexander Lieb of Sherman Oaks, Calif, gave Khrushchev a ballpoint pen as a souvenir, Nikita, laughing, handed over a more expensive fountain pen in return...
...that, even the board had misgivings, got special permission from the state legislature to raise $200,000 by selling short-term warrants to its Houston bank. As citizens cheered, the board voted to reopen the schools and even to boost the tax rate next fiscal year to $1.75. But trouble was far from over: the bank flatly refused to buy Aldine's warrants, and the schools stayed closed...
...good purpose by bringing the price of blue chips down to what the public likes to pay. They also enlarge the supply of stock to keep up with corporate growth. Otherwise, as institutions have stepped up their buying of blue chips, the supply of stocks would have become so short that the price would have climbed far above the level that the public could afford. IBM would scarcely be widely held if it had not had many splits; one share today would cost more than $17,000. Thus, by seeking out new stockholders by splits, U.S. industry is making people...
...Darkroom Short Cut. A one-step photo-developing solution that replaces the three separate solutions now commonly used (developer, stop-bath, hypo) is being sold by Manhattan's Cormac Chemical Corp. Called Cormac Unibath, it cuts development time to six minutes v. current 45 minutes. Price: $2.25 a pint, comparable to price of developer and hypo together...
...lead an ordinary life doing ordinary things," said the short, sandy-haired woman waiting to be called as an honored guest to the platform in Washington's resplendent Departmental Auditorium last week. "I'm just doing what other people are doing." Dr. Anne Carlsen, 43, was right in a way. She just does "what other people are doing," but with a difference: she does it with no arms, and with artificial legs. The President's Committee on Employment of the Physically Handicapped could have found no more logical recipient for its annual trophy award to the "Handicapped...