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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...needs to fight a hot war, or even supply reasonable protection in a cold one. In the past year, production has not even doubled. In 1951, it will not exceed 5,000 planes (about the 1939 rate) v. World War II's peak of 96,318 (see chart). Engines are the bottleneck, and there are two main reasons: shortages of machine tools and of critical metals (cobalt, columbium and tungsten). Moreover, engines are so much bigger and more complicated than World War II's that it takes more time, more skill and three times more labor to build...
...occupational plans report opens with a chart showing the age of distribution of seniors. Two 19-year old seniors and one who is 34 form the extremes of the class of '51, whose median...
...England's biggest department store. Not until Boston Banker Charles Francis Adams became treasurer in 1898 did Harvard start shifting from real estate to common stocks. When the 1929 Wall Street crash put many good securities on the bargain counter, Harvard bought stocks faster than ever (see chart), now holds $112 million worth...
...kind of clinical fiction housewives seem to love. The leading story is a cheerful piece on a day in the life of an obstetrician, by Old Standby Faith Baldwin. Sample quote: "If she proved to have a generally contracted pelvis, the measurements and the X ray would chart his course of action-a low Caesarean section, he hoped." Concludes the doctor at day's end: "What a wonderful job I have, what a wonderful life...
...door to all kinds of chemical processes, (e.g., urea, long-chain alcohols), won 18 patents, most of them used by Du Pont. It was Greenewalt's work on nylon-the biggest treasure yet turned up in Du Pont test tubes-which put him far up on the skimmer chart. Du Pont's brilliant scientist, Dr. Wallace Carothers, first materialized the nylon fiber by finding a way to simulate the long-chain molecules found naturally in silk. But it was Greenewalt's patient five-year nursing, from test tube to pilot plant, that helped bring nylon to mass...