The Temporary National Economic (Monopoly) Committee will shortly seek more funds. One way to get them, observers wisecracked after last week's hearings, would be to charge businessmen for the privilege of testifying. No witch-hunt, the hearings turned into a sounding board with advertising value for a number of industries.
The subject was still patents, Philo T. Farnsworth of Farnsworth Television. Inc. related how he discovered the basic principle of television when he was only 14. Dr. William David Coolidge, director of General Electric Co.'s Schenectady research laboratory, sounded off on G. E.'s recent discovery of "invisible" glass (TIME, Jan....
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