Word: watt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York Curb Exchange, few stocks have scooted up faster and higher in a year than Molybdenum Corp., a little company with a new find of rare minerals (TIME, Oct. 15). One of the heaviest buyers was Broker Ted Sterling of Toronto's Watt & Watt brokerage house, who spread the word among his customers that the stock looked good. As the customers and other buyers in the U.S. and Canada climbed aboard the gravy train, "Moly" soared from $13.50 to $80.50 a share...
Last week, under a flood of selling, Moly was going down faster than a guided missile. Off 15 points from its high as the week began, Moly dropped another 24 points in five days to a low of $41. In Toronto, angry investors swirled into Watt & Watt trying to get out of Moly. At one point, there were so many orders to sell that trading on the curb had to be stopped...
...watt floodlights were installed on the Weeks Footbridge yesterday, following agitation by Gordon M. Fair, Master of Dunster House. The lamps are placed on either end of the bridge, providing sufficient illumination for the entire structure...
WHRB will start its broadcasting this year with a new transmitter carrying more than three times the power of its predecessor. The 100 watt machine, combined with a new United Press teletype and the remodeling of WHRB's Dudley Hall studios is "intended for better coverage and better quality of sound," according to William R. Lamb '52, station technical director...
...laboratory of the University of South Dakota at Vermillion last week, young (28) Dr. Louis F. Michalak blacked the foreheads of two human guinea pigs with India ink to make the skin more heat-absorbent. The doctor tested their "pain threshold" with the heat from a 1,000-watt lamp. After taking their normal readings, Dr. Michalek reached for a pain-killing drug to inject. He meant to give them Demerol (safe dose: 100 milligrams). Then he would repeat the test on a third volunteer and himself, using methadon (safe dose: 10 milligrams). More pain readings were to follow...