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This is also the first year freshman do not have to worry about finding special electrical appliances as the switch from DC to AC current came this summer. The three year remodeling project is expected to draw to an end in another year...
...worship is more than ironically sagacious: it is downright shrewd. For, especially here on the MIT campus, form must follow function, in this case, to inspire divine thoughts in the pragmatic-and-recently sobered heads of MIT scientific supermen. the problem of directing brains from the mechanisms of Ac-DC current, the path of least resistance, to thoughts of the spirit, the divine essence and meaning of seemingly scientifically-equationed existences as undergraduates of THE Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is here resolved. and what's more--by mere architecture. Students need not even enter the "pearly gates" for inspiration; simply...
...redheaded fellow started going down in the plant and found out what determined his costs. He had to learn the technical side of the business, and he went out and learned it." Within a year after he was hired, at the age of 21, Curtice was made controller of AC Spark Plug...
Middle-Age Spread. With time out for a World War I stint overseas in the field artillery (he came out a private first class), Curtice rapidly rose to AC assistant general manager, vice president, and, at 36, president. Then, in 1933, came an opportunity born of disaster. General Motors' Buick, for years a notable success as the safe, sound and respectable "doctor's car," was in dire trouble. It had gone up in price, fallen behind in styling, grown fat and heavy (one model was inelegantly nicknamed the "pregnant Buick," the "bedpan Buick" and the "bathtub Buick"). When...
...While most of his time is spent with the auto divisions, Curtice also runs Frigidaire, the diesel divisions (G.M. is the biggest U.S. maker of diesel locomotives) and the rest of G.M.'s 4O-odd divisions. Among them: Delco radios, motors, etc.; Allison engines; AC Spark Plug...