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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...family, and Fanny's husband, Painter Wilhelm Hensel. Since Hensel had no ear for music, Felix had given him only one note in a trio. When the great day came, wrote one of the more musical friends, Memoirist Eduard Devrient, "[Hensel was] not able to catch the note, though it was blown and whispered to him from every side." Even so, "the work made a great impression...
...allotting $50 million to RFC for prefabricated housing last year, Congress expected to hatch out a number of new prefabricators. But RFC had already picked out one big egg, Lustron Corp., and hatched it (TIME, Nov. 25, 1946 et seq.). Though RFC knew that Lustron's steel houses had only a fair chance of survival in the housing market, RFC kept on feeding Lustron millions because it knew that otherwise Lustron would die. In two years, Lustron swallowed up $35.5 million.* Last week RFC lent Lustron another $2,000,000 to keep the company going through September, and then...
Consolidated was buffeted by labor troubles, had money-losing contracts to deliver Convair-240s, its two-motored commercial airliners. Though Odium expected some loss on the contracts, which had been signed before he took over, he soon found that he had underestimated such losses by . $13 million. All in all, Consolidated piled up losses of $35.7 million in 1947 and $10.3 million last year...
...Armour Research Foundation announced a cheap method for adding sound to 8-and 16-mm. home movies by putting magnetic material along the edge of the film to make a sound track. With a special sound adapter on his projector, the amateur may dub in a commentary, though he won't be able to record sound as he takes the pictures. The sound can be dubbed into new & old films alike, can be erased and rerecorded in case of mistakes. Armour said that Eastman Kodak Co., Revere Camera Co., Ampro Corp., and Bell & Howell Co all plan to have...
This B film, more or less successfully masquerading as an A-with-a-Cause, has certain virtues: though four-fifths of the footage consist of phosphorescent Christmas card night scenes produced through a new use of infrared film, the rest of it-a porridge-colored dawn landing of the immigrants and the bright dusty midday scenes around a desert village-is visually exciting...