Word: whatness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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World-Famous Paintings needed 250,000 gallons of milk (for casein) to make the coated paper on which it is printed. Some of its time-tried favorites: The Last Supper, Mona Lisa, The Birth of Venus, The Laughing Cavalier, Shoeing the Baby Mare, The Angelus, Mrs. Siddons, The Music Lesson...
Just as extraordinary is what is now going on within Pratt & Whitney's existing plant. Workmen are being hired at the rate of 50 a day. Soon there will be two men at every job-one working, one watching - throughout its 6,000-job plant. This also is a...
In most air forces and most airlines, when a pilot nears his landing field he calls the ground, asks for the "Kollsman number." What he gets is the atmospheric pressure in that area, necessary to adjust his altimeter, which actually is nothing but a barometer graduated in feet of altitude...
Kollsman Instrument Co. employed more than 400 men in its Elmhurst, N. Y. plant and its Glendale, Calif, branch factory, acquired a one-year backlog of instrument orders for outfitting new planes, received royalties on Kollsman's 200 patents. But no outsider really knew what it was worth until...
Neither Producer Pasternak nor anybody else could foresee what Samuel S. Hinds (who was the father who played with fireworks in You Can't Take It With You) would do to Destry Rides Again. As a top-hatted, bespectacled, tobacco-chawing old mayor of Bottle Neck, and a crooked...