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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conditioning system in the world), kept food cold for the armed forces, simulated the low temperatures of high altitudes in wind tunnels. Once, on a hurry-up job for two synthetic rubber plants, Wampler yanked out the air-conditioning system in Manhattan's swank Tiffany & Co. jewelry store and shipped it to Oklahoma and Texas. To save space, Carrier devised a system which eliminated large cooling ducts. Instead, it compressed the air and shot it through small pipes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The Heat Hater | 8/11/1952 | See Source »

...their gutter-eye view of America, U.S.A. Confidential, the New York Daily Mirror's Editor Jack Lait and Nightclub Columnist Lee Mortimer threw enough mud to bring six libel suits against them (TIME, May 19). Biggest of the six was by Dallas' elegant Neiman-Marcus store. It sued for $7,400,000 on the basis of Lait & Mortimer's statement in the book that "some Neiman models are call girls-the top babes in town . . . Price, a hundred bucks a night. The salesgirls are good, too . . . twenty bucks on the average." Named with Lait & Mortimer were Crown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sponged & Expunged | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

Last week all but Lait & Mortimer agreed to a crow-eating settlement with Neiman-Marcus. It called for 1) letters of apology to every one of the store's 1,500 employees, 2) a guarantee that the offending paragraphs will not be printed in future copies of the book, 3) a cash settlement with the store, 4) a half-page apology "to the highly regarded Neiman-Marcus store and its employees" paid for by the defendants and printed this week as an ad in seven big-city dailies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sponged & Expunged | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

Assembly Line. In Madison Heights, Va., 13-month-old Martha Lula Coleman started to swallow a piece of nylon sewing thread, choked, brought up the string and a 10?-store whistle she had swallowed three months before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 28, 1952 | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

...David Wayne) brings his bride Nellie (Jean Peters) to the whistle-stop town of Sevillinois in 1895, and proudly shows her his two-chair parlor. From there on, as the soundtrack resounds to the strain of the title song: 1) Nellie runs off to Chicago with a slick Hardware-Store Owner Hugh Marlowe and dies in a train accident; 2) the shop burns down, and Wayne builds a new four-chair shop with an electric rotation barber pole; 3) brash young Benny Halper (Tommy Morton) grows up and marries Hardwareman Marlowe's red-haired daughter Eadie (Helene Stanley), joins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 21, 1952 | 7/21/1952 | See Source »

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