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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army Engineers insist that lower basin levee systems must be reinforced by big river flood-control dams, like the $87 million Tuttle Creek project on the Big Blue River north of Manhattan, Kans. Authorized in 1938 as the key unit in the control of the Kansas (Kaw) River Basin, it was blocked for 14 years by angry farmers whose land would be flooded, and who argued instead for a federally financed program of soil conservation (contouring, terracing) and small detention dams on the land to hold the water where it fell. Each year the late Senator Clyde Reed of Kansas...
...equipment will continue to be tested for operation in snow and sleet conditions B. & O. already pronounced it "ideal for watching yard operations-especially blind spots and ends of yards distant from the yardmaster's office." The biggest appeal for RCA's new closed-circuit TV unit was its price: $5,500, only one-third or less of the cost formerly required to set up a circuit of equal fidelity. As a result, RCA hoped to turn the promising new field of industrial TV into a big business...
...jump in net to $44 million in the first six months despite a 10% drop in sales (to $1.3 billion). Chrysler's good showing, said the company, resulted from auto-price increases big enough (15% in a year) to overcome higher taxes (up 220%), and higher unit costs caused by restricted auto output (582,984 units v. 804,884 in 1951's first half). At the news, Chrysler jumped 3 points to 82 ⅜, a new high for the year. General Motors, which had earlier reported a second-quarter net of $142 million, up 2%, rose nearly...
Diego. Later, he worked for the Fleet Air Electronics Unit. "It started me wondering and thinking about the universe," he says. Since he had also been a writer of movie and radio scripts, Moser put his writing and wonderment together to make up Space Patrol...
...Street. Reporters need telephones. So half a dozen telephone company trucks roared up, electricians swarmed up into the Blair elms, foremen raced up & down the street, cables streamed out of the trees like boa constrictors, and nine pay-telephone booths were set up outside the garden wall. A mobile unit with six more pay phones hummed at the curb...