Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Patent Office in Washington announced that patent No. 2,204,004 had been granted to Elihu Root 3rd, 36-year-old grandson of the onetime Secretary of War and Secretary of State, and a graduate of Hamilton College who is now a free-lance engineer in Springfield, Vt. The patent: an optical device for taking minute and precise measurements for use in the machine-tool industry...
...HENNESSY JR. Springfield, Ohio...
...started parceling out licenses for new TV stations last week, only a few days after it began going through its backlog of more than 500 applications (TIME, July 14). Nine TV-less cities got the go-ahead: Portland, Ore., New Bedford and Springfield-Holyoke, Mass., Youngstown, Ohio, Flint, Mich., Bridgeport and New Britain, Conn., York, Pa. and Denver. But Denver is still in for a wrangle. The FCC has ordered hearings for the two rivals who want channel 4-station KMYR, and the new Metropolitan Television Co., of which Bob Hope is a major stockholder...
...real estate company, a tobacco company, several insurance companies and religious organizations. Some well-known names were also in the running: Mary Pickford Rogers, in Winston-Salem, N.C.; Bing Crosby Enterprises, in Spokane, Wash.; Democratic National Committee Chairman Frank McKinney & friends, in Indianapolis; Economic Stabilizer Roger Putnam, in Springfield, Mass. Denver, which now has no TV, is the biggest plum. Among the hopeful applicants: Comedian Bob Hope and Denver's Mayor Quigg Newton...
...Haiti last winter, she rough-sketched The Blessing Strive (right, above), then submitted the finished picture for Massachusetts' Springfield Museum of Fine Arts' 12th annual purchase exhibition. The public voted...