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...time. Moreover the suit seems academic for the present because none of the com pany's foreign agreements in which the Justice Department is most interested are operative as long as the war lasts. Finally, burden of defending the suit will probably fall hardest on the busiest man in Bendix, Charles Marcus, vire president in charge of engineering, who only recently returned from England armed with new ideas for improving the company's equipment. According to the company: "These must all be neglected while Mr. Marcus defends himself and the company for the second time in an anti...
...Busiest group is the American Association of Variable Star Observers, who report their findings to the Harvard Observatory. Variable stars are distant suns which flare up, wane, flare up again with a mysteriously pulsating energy. Says one amateur observer: "Once you've watched a variable star in action, you're never the same again. It's like having your finger on the pulse of the universe." Variable stars (which include the Pole Star) pulsate, and nobody knows why or how, except that their behavior probably involves enormous transformations of matter into energy...
...folklore of U.S. industry. Their author is a Los Angeles psychologist who rejoices in the name of Doncaster George Humm. Dr. Humm, who took for his mission in life the job of fitting square pegs into square holes, created a "temperament test" which has made him one of the busiest men in the U.S. war effort. Some 2,000,000 workmen have taken his test, and 225 corporations would not think of making a change in personnel without consulting...
Conceived in the President's First Inaugural Address, and born in April 1933, CCC had one of the best records of all New Deal hopefuls. From city and farm the Corps rescued thousands of jobless youths. During its busiest month in 1935, it housed as many as 505,782 boys in more than 2,000 camps throughout the nation. Up & down the land, CCCers built roads, carved trails, cleared parks, reforested, learned crafts, fought fires. The most rabid opponents of New Deal spending admitted that CCC was worthwhile...
...Busiest Physicists. "The need for physicists in all war work is growing at a rate of between 1,500 and 2,000 a year, yet the schools are not turning out more than 500," says Director Henry Askew Barton of the American Institute of Physics. "The last war put chemistry on the map. This is a war of physics...