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...cereal plant, capitalized on the nation's first enthusiasm for the new, ready-to-serve product, helped make it a national institution. Kellogg gave most of his millions to the Kellogg Foundation for children's charity, pioneered in establishing a six-hour day (at eight-hour wages) for his 2,000-odd employees, and transformed his home town by giving it, among other things, 14 schools, an auditorium and an airport. Twice widowed, he was a gloomy, awkwardly bashful man, with no social life to speak of, and one main diversion: breeding Arabian steeds (including Jadaan, ridden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 15, 1951 | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

...tried only in the laboratory. Among their test shots, the inventors have two pictures of a glowing filament covered by a dense filter that made it invisible to the naked eye. One picture, taken directly on a photographic plate, showed only a dim trace of the filament after a six-hour exposure. The other, taken with speeded-up electrons, showed the whole filament clearly after only four minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Electron Astronomy | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

Skinless but Normal. With little to lose in Gaines's case, Dr. Whitelaw decided the time had come to play a hunch. He ordered all other medication stopped. Then he began injecting his patient at six-hour intervals with 20-milligram shots of ACTH, the new synthetic hormone (TIME, April 10). Within five days the patient's most dangerous symptoms had vanished. He was resting comfortably, "a normal man," in the words of one doctor, "only without much skin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Farmer & the Drug | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

...Kuder Preference Tests and the Aptitude Survey have emerged from the experimental stage. Next week when 250-odd freshmen go through the six-hour ordeal of the Aptitude Survey, they will no longer be mere assistants for the Bureau of Tests, but will take the Survey for their own benefit for the first time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tests First Given to Test Tests Now Aid Students to Plan Future | 3/18/1950 | See Source »

Alexander C. Cella '51 represented the College World Federalists at the six-hour hearing before the Senate Constitutional Law Committee, presided over by Charles J. Innes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: World Federalists Support State Bill | 3/16/1950 | See Source »

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