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Leontief has been interested in this subject ever since he came to this country in 1931. In 1948, with Foundation funds, he built up a small staff to work with him. The staff, which varies in number, is composed of professors, instructors, and even a few students. Leontief, reached in Washington last night, said that he was especially interested in getting students to work on the project and integrating them gradually into the staff...
Plans for the construction of a $4,000,000 laboratory, to be built at M.I.T. by the International Business Machine Co., will allow Harvard and 22 other universities to share in the operation of the giant "704" computer. The device will be the center of the laboratory...
Leighton, under whose supervision Harry had worked since the Graduate Center was built, refuted Mrs. Brown's charges. "I shook hands with him and wished him good luck. What more can you do? Does she expect me to give him a fifty dollar bill?" he asked...
...bridge commission built a mile-long span in 1950, half a mile from the river it was supposed to cross. Nature refused to move the river back, and neither could the engineers without congressional funds. The dry-land bridge grew into a joke to everyone but Wall Street's Cornelius Shields & Co. Shields, a veteran dealer in such issues, and famed yachtsman (TIME, July 27, 1953), headed the underwriting syndicate that sold the 3.75% bond issue (maturing in 1980), on the understanding that in 1952, its first year in operation, the bridge would take in $155,600. As past...
Into the rail station at Peoria, Ill. last week slithered the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad's answer to the annual $700 million deficit of U.S. passenger trains: the Jet Rocket, a light, low train modeled after the Spanish Talgo. Built by ACF Industries, Inc., it is the first of the new lightweight trains to be owned by a U.S. railroad. It begins regular Chicago-Peoria passenger runs this week...