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...whole thing began in 1940 after Stanley had quit Dartmouth, and started looking for something to do. With Father Floyd's help he picked up a twelve-year-old semi-dormant investment trust, changed the name to Great American Industries, bought an outfit called Virginia Rubatex Corp., which makes hard & soft cellular rubber for insulation, gaskets, seat cushions, pontoons, etc. The rubber business flourished but young Odium wanted more diversification, found it in venerable Ward La France Truck Corp., one of the biggest U.S. makers of fire engines and custom-built, heavy-duty trucks. With these...
With a Cornell engineering degree in his hip pocket, Charlie went to work for Chicago's American Shipbuilding Co. in 1900, picked up tricks of the trade for two years, quit to buy an ancient, near-dormant shipyard at Manitowoc, Wis. It had been a clipper shipyard since 1847, and Charlie built one wooden ship for tradition's sake, then switched to steel. To speed things along he rounded up a wide-awake, corner-cutting engineering staff, set up large machine shops to make boilers and engines, shape every piece of steel used in a West-built ship...
These tough words came last week from WPB's Industrial Conservation chief, shy philanthropic Lessing Rosenwald, as he announced a new all-out drive for industry's "dormant scrap." Donald Nelson backed up his chief junkman in even tougher talk: "The one thing we must not do," he said, "is to pack machinery and equipment away permanently or in grease against the end of the war." Every existing piece of machinery must be used now for war production, for replacement parts for other machines, or for scrap...
...technicians had exposed the dehydrated meat to temperatures as high as 110° for four weeks without spoiling it, had inoculated it with deadly organisms: these died or remained dormant. The meat lost some protein value in the drying. In the dehydration, the meat is exposed to great heat, practically precooked, then put into dry air to drive off at least 90% of the moisture. It must be vacuum-packed in tin cans until other packaging can be found. To reconvert the dry, powdery meat, it is soaked in water for an hour, boiled ten minutes, simmered...
...less than three weeks the fat to muscle metamorphosis of the allegedly physically dormant Harvard man is scheduled to begin. Yet with compulsory athletics all but an actuality, the plans and policies of University Hall, the HAA, and the Hygiene Department are still in the amendment stage. The initially iron-clad announcement of supervised conditioning for all has been relaxed to allow credit for geology field trips, team managing, and possibly bicycling as well as for participation in Naval and Military Science, and Varsity and House athletics. Apparently the compulsory athletics plan is no exception to the University's well...