Word: bottlenecks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blame for the flop of the program, Senator Clyde Martin Reed, chairman of the Senate's transportation subcommittee, called car builders and railmen to Washington this week. But an investigation would hardly stretch the bottleneck fast enough. And a hard winter would squeeze down and close many a plant. The likeliest solution was Government allocation of steel. Though they dread the effect allocation would have on their markets, many steelmakers, who need cars as badly as anyone to haul coal and ore, privately thought that allocation was the only...
Round table discussions will consider "The Need for Expanding Physical Facilities," "The Challenge to Curriculum and Faculty: Revision in Teaching Methods and Shortages of Personnel," and finally, "Inflation on the Campus." Plenary session forums on "The Veteran Looks at Education" and "Braking the Education Bottleneck" are also scheduled...
Chief among these is the preparation of new check-off-lists, upon which each man will be assigned a number, eliminating the bottleneck producing procedure of signing for meals. Commencement of classes will also tend to stagger at least the breakfast and luncheon lines, and the opening of the new graduate dining hall in Vansert Hall Monday eases the burden still further...
...bottleneck to the spawning grounds had been the roaring Fraser River chasm called Hell's Gate. Railroad dynamiting in 1913 had spilled tons of rock into the gorge, partially blocking it. Thousands of salmon swimming upstream perished in the turbulent watery so that the number returning four years later was greatly decreased. The loss to the industry was measured in millions annually...
Psychiatry Begins at Home. Last week the National Advisory Mental Health Council made ready to attack its chief bottleneck: the shortage of psychiatrists. To carry out its program-research in mental disease and establishment of federal-aided mental clinics in all states-the nation needs at least 20,000 more mental doctors. No more than 500 a year can be trained in existing institutes and medical schools. The council will build a $7.500,000 mental health institute for training and research in Bethesda, Md., help medical schools' enlarge their psychiatry departments, send demonstration teams to state mental hospitals...