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Waxworks of Tomorrow. In Racine Wis., S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc. (Johnson's Wax) began building a radically new research building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, who also designed the com pany's administrative building. The air conditioned structure, which resembles a hollyhock in a glass case (see cut), will be 40 feet square, have 15 floors. Alternate floors will be circular, and all floors will be hung in cantilever fashion from a central reinforced-concrete stem which contains the elevators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Facts & Figures, Nov. 24, 1947 | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

...nearly done now, though. We thought we'd never get started this year what with all the rain." The only emotional uplift McTernan gets out of serving 311 years of tradition, according to his own account, is wondering what famous person will be up front on Com- mencement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nails, Not Tradition, Cement Commencement Site in Yard | 5/24/1947 | See Source »

...radioactivity produced by the Bikini bombs," Dr. Teller points out, "was detected within about one week in the United States. It was weak, com pletely harmless. . . . But there is a threshold beyond which radioactivity has lethal effects. . . . Sufficiently strong radio activity will kill all living tissue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The New, Improved Attack | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

...Mistreatment" & Cordiality. As expected, Cyrankiewicz's Cabinet marked a leftward swing. Mikolajczyk was out as Vice Premier and Minister of Agriculture; also out were two of Mikolajczyk's partymen. In his place was Russian-trained Wladyslaw Gomulka, the Com munist Party's secretary. Undisturbed in his sub-Cabinet post of Under Secretary of State, but stronger than ever behind the scenes, was Moscow-trained Jakub Berman, Poland's real boss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: We Are All Gentlemen | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

Your editorial in the December 19 Crimson praising the War Department Information and Education Program strikes an old I & E non-com like myself as being a bit tragic-comic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

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