Word: upness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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To Hollanders everywhere, a Philips' incandescent lamp bulb is as much a symbol of their country as a tulip. Founded in 1891 by studious Gerard Philips, 32, a professor at the Delft Polytechnic School, the company started out in an abandoned tannery making 30 light bulbs a day. Though...
Blockade Runners. World War I only made Philips grow bigger faster. To circumvent the blockage of the North Sea, the company outfitted its own fleet of fast blockade-running ships. With the home market protected from competition, the brothers Philips steadily pushed into new lines, made X-ray tubes for...
From these undisputed facts, Dulles proceeded to the hotly disputed question of comparative growth rates. Since 1950, he said, Russia's G.N.P. has been expanding at a rate of 7% a year-"at least twice" the rate of about 3% for the U.S. in the past six or seven...
The textile experts said it was folly: garment factories could never flourish in Hong Kong because of lack of water and trained workers. Besides, there was the powerful new force of Japanese competition. But Chen Che Lee, a wealthy young Shanghai cotton manufacturer, fooled the experts. In 1946, with $1...
¶Remco Industries' Coney Island Penny Machine. The penny arcade game features a claw that picks up tiny plastic toys, drops them down a chute. List price: $12.98.