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Before starting a week TIME now gives its staff a two-day rest, during which a backlog of news is allowed to pile up. The week proper begins with long hours of conferences in which writers, researchers, and various specialists, in successive groups of three to 15, examine, weigh, discuss news developments with the managing editors. Requests for more information and verification of facts are wired, telephoned, cabled. Meantime, an immense volume of news-20,000 words an hour-continues to gush in. New conferences are held, old decisions revised, new research begun, stories written, torn apart, rewritten...
Without a backlog of systematic planning and investigation he may well be forced to strike an opportunist note which will reduce his selection of some business career to mere chance or worse...
Stettinius has just turned 37, has a big backlog of executive training. Son and namesake of the original Edward Reilly Stettinius, Morgan partner and U. S. director of Allied Munitions' purchases during the War, "Little Stet" craved a career of his own. Already grey-haired and sober as an undergraduate, he was well liked at the University of Virginia. Starting out at the bottom in Hyatt Bearings Division of General Motors, he rose with meteoric rapidity through industrial and public relations to a vice-presidency. During the heyday of NRA he was one of Hugh Johnson's aides...
...largest single order for military aircraft since the World War-177 twin-motored bombers costing $11,651,948.10. To Douglas Aircraft Co., Inc. of Santa Monica, Calif., already the world's largest aircraft factory with some 10,000 hands at work, went this huge contract, bringing the Douglas backlog of orders...
Research in science and engineering is the backlog of the productive industries. Chemists, physicists, metallurgists, some biologists, and engineers will find several types of positions open to them depending somewhat upon the nature and extent of their training. Some of the largest industrial companies devote a part of their laboratories to fundamental research on basic scientific problems. Here are openings for the Ph.D., in chemistry, particularly, to engage in pure scientific investigation unhampered by the pressure of the management for commercially profitable results on short order. Men for this work must be outstanding as independent investigators...