Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Walkie-talkies had not been invented in 1910, when Humorist Robert Benchley delivered his uproariously unmedical lecture, "Through the Alimentary Canal with Gun and Camera," so the imaginary expedition from gullet to fundament could make no on-the-spot broadcasts of its progress. Last week Manhattan's Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research announced the development of a tiny capsule FM transmitter that can make just such broadcasts. It is small enough (|⅛in. long, 4/10 in. in diameter) to be swallowed like an oversized pill. Conceived by New York Physician John T. Farrar, the plastic-encased transmitter was designed...
...Bureau of Labor Statistics began to keep a closer watch on productivity, made spot checks throughout industry. It found that from 1947 through 1953 productivity of benchworkers in manufacturing increased between 3% and 3.6% a year. In 1954 and 1955 the rate of increase rose to 4.5%. But in 1956 it dropped sharply to between 1% and 2.5%. Furthermore, these figures did not include nonproduction workers, who are usually a brake on the increase in productivity since it is impossible to mechanize many service jobs...
...months, but bounded back in 1955 to $455,261. Last year, paralleling the start of the boycott and the slump in housing starts, the figure settled to $336,856. Kohler's competitors said last week that the company is holding fast to its traditional No. 2 spot in the plumbing-ware industry, just behind the American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp. Admitted one competitor: "Kohler is in on all the jobs. We do not see it losing from the boycott...
...first singles, Junta blasted B.U.'s Bill Kerr, 6-0, 6-1, and in the second spot, Gottlieb, working towards developing his net game, took a 6-3, 7-5 contest from Ray Kenney. Third singles man Sears won a 6-4, 6-2 match from Al Weber...
...singles players will be the same as on Wednesday. Dale Junta will be in the first singles spot, followed by Steve Gottlieb at second singles. Larry Sears, who recently moved past Ben Heckscher in the varsity seeding, will hold down the third position, and Cal Place will round out the top four. Captain Ian Gianetti and Phil Mills will play fifth and sixth singles...