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...technique was first used for examining welds and joints in everything from bridges to nuclear submarines. Then Technical Operations, Inc. of Burlington, Mass, helped Eastern solve the problem of getting radiographic equipment into the hollow rotor shaft of jet engines by using a 100-curie capsule of iridium 192 that is as small as a pencil eraser but emits gamma radiation powerful enough to pierce the engine's metal innards...
...mind how many min utes he will have to allow before flight time. And while some large corporations are closing out now unnecessary branch offices because of the jet's ability to get their men to the territory fast, others are expanding. When small Technical Operations Inc. of Burlington, Mass., acquired a $6,000,000 company in San Carlos, Calif., jet speed was a definite consideration in the deal. "If we couldn't get there readily," says Dr. Marvin G. Schorr, Techops' president, "we wouldn't have got involved. But it's as easy...
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Harvard President Nathan Pusey's undergraduate days in Cambridge were enriched by a restricted scholarship. As a transplanted native of Council Bluffs, Iowa, he was eligible for aid offered by Charles Perkins, president of the Chicago, Burlington &; Quincy Railroad, whose trust fund gave preference to youths "who come from the territory in Iowa served by the C.B. & Q. Railroad." Princeton engineering students from states served by the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co. can apply for a special scholarship. At N.Y.U., would-be teachers tap funds given by Mrs. Finley J. Shepard-daughter of Railroad Magnate Jay Gould...
Dream of Power. The experimental flight at Burlington, Mass., last week was an impressive achievement. Transmitting power by radio waves has long been a gleam in the eyes of electrical engineers, but the process is normally too inefficient for anything except radio and TV communication. Raytheon started years ago to work out an improvement (TIME...