Word: vias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Nazi Panzer divisions overran The Netherlands in World War II, one of the places they headed for first was the great Philips company electric works at Eindhoven. But hours before their arrival, 25 top Philips scientists and executives slipped away via British destroyers, carrying with them vital secrets that contributed to radar and other wartime developments. Left behind, loyal Philipsmen cheerfully sabotaged what production the R.A.F. did not pulverize. Last week Philips President Frans Otten gave the latest progress report on Philips' amazing comeback. In the first nine months this year, sales of Philips' worldwide empire reached...
...Dumfounded, Gerard wired back asking how many of the zeros were a mistake. Rewired multilingual Anton impatiently: "Fifty thousand, fÜnfzig tausend, cinquante mille." When Germany later cut the rail link to Russia, Anton hired 70 reindeer and sleighs to get light bulbs through to the imperial court via Finland...
...growth is just beginning." Better methods of packaging, freezing, mixing and cooking are on the way to tempt the housewife. She may soon be able to duplicate the cooking feats of big hotels and restaurants; many of them now move individual meals from freezer to plate in two minutes via an infra-red range. A new method of freeze drying may replace many of the present frozen foods with dehydrated foods that will not have to be kept in a freezer...
...GRAND MANEUVERS OF THE REVEREND ON VIA VENETO, chortled the next day's picture caption, while the subject of the story, privately reprimanded by the Vatican, prepared to return to the relative freedom and anonymity of New York. "Italy has nothing more for me," said Gussoni. "It's better to lose your health than your reputation...
...York City premiere. The production had enlisted a somewhat disparate but unquestionably distinguished group of the biggest talents in the business: Elia Kazan, Boris Aronson, Raymond Massey, Christopher Plummer, Pat Hingle. Everyone involved, in Newsweek's candid prose, was taking "a calculated risk; the drama had arrived via the egghead circuit." But virtue was rewarded, for J.B. proved to be "a sort of theatrical thunderbolt that strikes about once in a decade," according to Newsweek, "... a burst of magnificent, enthralling theatre that kept a fascinated audience of first-nighters applauding long after the stage hands wanted to call...