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...extinct. Last week the U.S. Office of Education gave out the facts & figures. Though one-room schools have been folding up at the rate of twelve a day for 30 years, there are still 75,000 left. They account for nearly one-half of all U.S. public-school buildings, employ one-twelfth of U.S. teachers, have an enrollment of one-sixteenth (1,500,000) of U.S. schoolchildren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Disappearing Schoolhouse | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

Biology is generally a convenient concentration for pre-medical students since courses like Biology 1 and 122 (Comparative Verterbrate Anatomy) are ordinarily an important part of the preparation for medical school. More than that, the department offers an excellent introduction to the kind of experimentation that the medical schools employ constantly; the student, for instance, can get a very thorough background in the technique of studying micro-organisms and laboratory animals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Biology | 4/28/1950 | See Source »

...deny waste and duplication" in my testimony before the Congress, but I could have argued that military hospitals are like manned firehouses. Municipalities employ firemen, and maintain costly equipment in comparative idleness for the sake of having a well-trained, well-equipped fire-fighting force in an emergency. Cities do not close down firehouses because they have suffered no recent holocausts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 24, 1950 | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

Among topics that Hall will discuss are the techniques of the American agitator, the strength and make-up of racist organizations, and how these groups employ propaganda weapons. He will augment his talk with wire-recordings made at various demonstrations and will exhibit samples of anti-democratic literature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hall to Discuss Racist Groups in Annex Talk | 4/21/1950 | See Source »

...Akron's General Tire & Rubber Co. bought a minority interest (60,000 shares, worth $168,000) in the first tire-and-tube company in the Middle East. It will supervise construction of a $1,750,000 plant near Haifa, Israel, to employ 300 people, and will supply plant management and processes to produce 80,000 to 100,000 tires and tubes a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: A Helping Hand | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

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