Word: wilsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cheering House of Commons, President of the Board of Trade Harold Wilson announced, after more than seven threadbare years, that clothes rationing was ended forthwith. Mr. Wilson publicly tore up his own little red ration book. Demonstrating its ability to get vernally cute, the Board of Trade had called the derationing of clothes "Operation Godiva." Stores braced themselves for a furious stampede of British Godivas clamoring to buy new clothes. But it never came; instead, there was a rush on towels, sheets, handkerchiefs and underwear. High prices kept customers from splurging on clothes, rationed or not. Sagittarius jingled...
...Davis '49, Thomas H. Gannon '49, James D. Gabler '51, Frank J. Lionetti '50, Walter R. McCurdy '49, William L. Mobraaten '50, Ralph Petrillo '49, William A. Prior '50, John P. Richards '49, John R. Rockwell '50, Edward B. Smith '51, Quentin R. Stiles '51, Manager Bennett C. Wilson...
...pretty good night. Hubble pointed the telescope at a small patch of sky (Area No. 57 in the constellation Coma Berenices) that had been thoroughly studied through the old 1001nch telescope on Mt. Wilson. He started taking pictures. Results were good enough to excite the calmest astronomer...
...minute exposure, the Palomar telescope recorded all that had ever been caught at Mt. Wilson. As the exposures were lengthened, fainter and more distant objects were found in constantly increasing numbers. An exposure of one hour brought in the "background," the shine of the night sky, and thus represented the maximum power of the telescope. To judge by the number of faint nebulae on it, this photograph reached one billion light-years (6 billion trillion miles) into space-twice as far as man had ever looked before. Said Hubble: "The tests confirm our previous conclusion that the Hale telescope...
...impresarios of the big eye will not repeat the error made at Mt. Wilson. When the 100-inch telescope was first used, it performed so well and the astronomers were so interested in what it showed that they would not let go of it. The final perfecting adjustments were not properly made for 15 years...