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...seldom-filled 39,200-seat stadium that Huey built. ¶Verner W. Clapp, chief assistant librarian of Congress, warned U.S. scientists to restrain themselves. Today, said he, there are nearly 2,000,000 scientific articles that U.S. librarians have not yet had time to catalogue-and the backlog is increasing at the rate of 215,000 a year. ¶Union Carbide and Carbon Corp. announced a model scholarship program to send high-school students to college. If all goes according to plan, the program will eventually take care of 400 students, pay their full four-year tuition, add an allowance...
...backlog of more than $2 billion, Douglas has contracts from 15 U.S. and foreign airlines calling for 114 four-engine airliners, including 58 new DC-7 transports. Bigger, faster (cruising speed: 360 m.p.h.) and more powerful than Douglas' DC-6, the long-range DC-75 will start flying in March...
...industrial products soaring. As the food budget dropped, consumers would be able to spend more on industrial products. And in manufacturing, there was no sign of a letup in demand. In the kingpin steel industry, Big Steel's Chairman Ben Fairless reported his company had a 20-week backlog, one of the biggest in its history at this time of year. There was plenty of sun, once people got used...
...delta-wing F2Y Sea-Dart. A supersonic jet fighter with skis for landing on water, it skitters ashore looking like an ungainly swordfish (see cut). Convair expects the new design to combine land-based performance with water-based versatility, create a "revolution" in naval operations. Current backlog: more than $1 billion...
...important. Whether Bicana Devil be comes to sight what The Jazz Singer was to sound, will depend on how well authors and directors accustom themselves to this essentially new me dinm. Despite its importation everyone should see the picture, it only to add another story to his backlog, of takes to admiring grandchildren. ROBERT L. SCHOENBERG