Word: developers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small, densely populated country such as Belgium can maintain a decent standard of living without a self-sustaining agriculture, because it has a high-geared industrial plant. But Puerto Rico is too poor in minerals and natural resources ever to support heavy manufacturing. It can and must develop light and medium industry. The alternative would be a future in which only an ever-increasing dole from the U.S. could prevent starvation. That is why Muñoz Marin, applying the self-help principles of the Marshall Plan, has enlisted Puerto Rico in the uphill struggle...
...test now looks simple, but Dr. Richardson, 52, has been working for five years to develop it. It is based on the long-known fact that the amount of the female hormone, estrone, in the urine increases greatly after conception. First, Dr. Richardson puts a specimen of urine in a special double-barreled test tube he invented. Then he gets rid of other hormones (progesterone derivatives), which might interfere with the test, by mixing in chloroform and sodium hydroxide. The fluid containing estrone rises to the top. This fluid is put in two other test tubes and a different chemical...
During World War I he was co-designer of the famed Liberty engines, developed Packard's Twin6 in 1915 (first U.S. 12-cylinder production car) and helped develop engines for Gar Wood's 125-m.p.h. speedboats. During World War II, he redesigned Rolls-Royce's Merlin aircraft engine (used in P-51s and Spitfires) so that it could be mass-produced by Packard...
...Council can perform a great service in the next few years if it would supplement this report by another, much more restricted report, outlining a specific program for preserving the advantages associated with tutorial. The aims of this program would be to enable students to develop working relationships with individual faculty members, and to encourage and guide independent work. Such a program would probably lean heavily on the Houses, which seem to be the only units small enough to deal with men out of the herd...
Born of War. Dr. Louis McCabe, director of the Los Angeles County Air Pollution Control District, was in no mood last week to wait for the scientists to develop elaborate new testing techniques, try them out and finally announce their findings. When McCabe's job (policing the air) was created 18 months ago, the crime of air pollution had been on the increase for seven years-ever since war orders made Los Angeles a small-parts arsenal. With near-dictatorial powers to shut down plants which disobey his smoke-curbing orders, McCabe has persuaded industry to appropriate $10 million...