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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...titanium program in hopes of performing a new wonder with the "wonder metal." They hope to transform the swaddling titanium industry into a full-grown giant. The Defense Materials Procurement Agency granted a fast tax write-off certificate, and NPA granted a $14.7 million loan to Du Pont to expand its present titanium facilities in Newport and Edge Moor, Del. (If advances in titanium production make the plant obsolete in the next few years, the Government will buy it back...
...Real horses & buggies filled the roads when Willis Carrier, a young Cornell-trained engineer employed by the Buffalo Forge Co., founded the modern air-conditioning industry in 1902. His first client was a Brooklyn lithograph company which had trouble because varying humidity in the shop made its paper contract & expand. Carrier devised a system which not only controlled humidity but cooled and circulated the air as well...
...magazines from the estate of the late great Lord Northcliffe (TIME, May 19) who had gone mad before he died. With Camrose as editorial boss and Kemsley, once described as the "greatest debenture salesman in British journalism," raising money and managing the finances, they continued to expand, buying and merging provincial papers that had been killing each other off with competition. Before long they had 25 papers in their chain...
...California, and private colleges like Stanford and Oberlin, grew in academic stature and began to appeal to students all over the country. Harvard, armed with with a reputation and a National Scholarship program, was able to ignore the competition until Eastern schools like Princeton, Yale, and Dartmouth began to expand westward...
...gross to $12.5 million. Leitz keeps many operations on a handwork basis simply to provide jobs. This, plus heavy taxes, has kept profits below prewar levels, but even so, Leitz made enough last year to finance a new $950,000 building at Wetzlar and the Canadian plant, which may expand Leitz's total capacity by 15%. At Midland, Leitz plans to train some 500 Canadians to grind lenses and make Leicas, eventually hopes to sell their output in the U.S. market...