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Into the residence of Burma's Prime Minister Thakin Nu last week walked an American construction engineer with a plan to remake Burma. The engineer was ex-Colonel H. B. Pettit of Warrenton, Va., manager of southeast Asia for Manhattan's Knappen-Tippetts-Abbett-McCarthy, an engineering firm that is now planning and designing foreign-building projects in more countries (15) than any other U.S. firm. Two years ago Burma used $2,000,000 of Point Four aid plus $1,000,000 of its own to hire the engineers to study the Burmese economy and draft ways...
World's Work. Such vast projects are all in the day's work for Knappen-Tip-petts-Abbett-McCarthy. The firm spends $500,000 a year on travel alone, and each of its five partners travels an average of 75,000 to 100,000 miles. The firm employs 420 to 450 U.S. engineers at home & abroad plus another 200 foreign engineers. In the past five years alone it has engineered projects totaling more than $3 billion, half of them overseas. Right now it is working on close to $1 billion worth of new projects...
Jayvee lineup--lw, Hemlen; c, McLaughlin, rw, Arnold; ld, Weld; rd, Coste; g, Lenkowski. Spares: Evarts, Fuller, Coolidge, Richardson, Abbot, Abbett, Washburn, Woods, Brock, Young...
Harvard Spares: Key, Sears, Greeley, S., Moseley, Ayres, McKean, Coulter Tilghman, Abbett...
Monday's tilt with Arlington revealed unexpected power in the Freshman second-string line, which pulled the team up by its ankle wraps after a slow first period. Left wing Larry Ward, right wing Gid Loring, and center Haven Abbett were easily "the outstanding line on the ice," Coach Stan Priddy stated after the contest...