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...estimated that in two years the delicate mechanism of training will have ground out sufficient numbers of instructors to give department heads quality as well as quantity to choose from. With this prospect within view, relatively few of the departments have made any attempt to alter their budgets to absorb this new strength. In the Social Sciences, Government still offers tutorial to that 25 percent who are candidates for honors; History has not budged from its original stand, and Economics offers no tutorial but merely a makeshift arrangement for thesis consultation. More disconcerting than this present indifference is the lack...
...keep the radio station going and incorporate the Record's Sunday features (among them the American Weekly) in a Sunday edition for the Bulletin. The profitable Camden papers and the weekday Record, which he did not want, he could sell at his leisure. Meanwhile his Bulletin could not absorb many of Stern's 1,675 employees...
...further listener social life, the Network gave eager males a chance to try sales technique on three Cliffedwellers, who picked their prospective dates, over the radio, on the basis of a smooth, steady line. On-the-spot broadcasts of the Dartmouth football games and various University forums let students absorb the local activities without venturing forth into rain or snow or slot outside...
...practical, if not idealistic reasons: drained by war, the U.S. for a long while would need far more lead, copper, tin, natural rubber, etc., than it could hope to produce or substitute synthetically. And in the long run, the U.S. would not be able to absorb all of the tremendous flow of goods which it is capable of producing, would need bigger outside markets to buy them...
...acres, an area almost three times the size of California. Estimated oil potential of these acres: up to 20 billion bbls. Current production is now 200,000 bbls. a day (up from 18,000 two years ago), and the Far Eastern market is not able to absorb anywhere near enough oil to warrant all-out production in the Arabian fields...