Word: toed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Underwood, who was appointed 23 years ago by F.D.R. and is known as a tough man on the bench, disregarded the trustbusters' recommendations. He fined the companies $20,000 and the individuals $5,000, plus the jail sentences, saying: "In cases of this character a fine is not a...
Do-lt-Yourself Christmas Tree. Six-foot Christmas trees with removable fir boughs that can be assembled at home were developed by Oregon Beauty Christmas Tree Co. for Montgomery Ward stores. The trees come in a kit containing 46 fireproofed Douglas fir boughs and a drilled wooden trunk into which...
Smog Reliever. The automobile industry will use an inexpensive device to control smog-producing automobile fumes in all cars manufactured for sale in California in 1961. The industry has discovered that hot gases from the exhaust pipe are not the main source of air pollution; smog is mainly caused by...
Jet Snow Train. The New York Central Railroad developed a snow blower that harnesses the exhaust of a B-36 jet bomber engine to blast its freight-yard tracks and switches free of snow. Mounted on a modified caboose with a huge nozzle, the engine can blow away snow for...
Exactly half a century ago, the New York Journal set out to protect the non-working girl, or U.S. heiress, from titled European fortune hunters. The newspaper printed a kind of form sheet of the international marital sweepstakes under the headings: American Heiress, Her Fortune. Man She Married. How He...