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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...largest part in training specialists for the war. The recent closure of reserve enlistments indicates that a new, all-embracing plan is already brewing. But the colleges must be given a definite idea of what and how much will be expected of them so they can start to expand facilities, plan curricula, and assemble instructors. The greater the delay, the poorer these preparations will be. With competent civilians finally in charge of manpower, the plan to come will probably be far more effective than the previous attempts. The men in charge of the Commission and the authority granted them inspire...
...spirit was far from spent on Guadalcanal. The Japs had planned a pincer; they would probably not abandon their plan easily, and early this week they made new landings to try to carry it out. But, far from crunching in on Henderson Field, they had seen the U.S. beachhead expand its width within the jaws of their pincer from eight miles to 16 miles...
...talk-the kind of back talk Congress got from World War I's tough Supplyman Charles G. Dawes-came this week from Rubber Czar William M. Jeffers. The Senate Agriculture Committee, loaded with cotton Senators, called him on the carpet. His crime was that he had planned to expand rayon production to get enough fabric for military tires-instead of substituting cotton, which is likely to overheat. Jeffers promptly threw the carpet over his hecklers' heads...
Headed by Donald M. Taylor, teaching fellow in the Psychology Department, the course now under way is the second of its kind to be given during the past few months. The first one, conducted for twelve weeks during Summer Session, yielded some interesting results which Taylor hopes to expand in the present course. It showed, first of all, that Harvard students' ability to learn the code far exceeds the average expected by the Army and Navy. The latter puts forth 130 hours of practice as the amount of time required to reach a receiving speed of 13 words a minute...
...years more, says the University of Chicago's astrophysicist, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, whose book, Principles of Stellar Dynamics, has just been published (University of Chicago Press; $5). Beginning with a compact, enormously dense mass of some eight billion degrees Centigrade (TIME, June 1), the Milky Way galaxy has been expanding for three billion years, will continue to expand for at least 9,997 billion more. By then it should be completely relaxed, the stars will all have the same velocity, and will begin to slip away from the galaxy like molecules of water evaporating from a puff of steam...