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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There, with the blessing of the Department of Interior and the backing ($3,750,000) of RFC, the privately operated Explorer and its trawlers will conduct an important experiment. It hopes to prove that U.S. fishermen can replace the Japanese who, prewar, caught and processed 66% of the world'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISHING: Baron of the Brine | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

He added that he did not expect the new project to become a "major task of the graduate students, who are working for degrees and who do not have the same amount of time for extra-curricular activities as do the undergraduates," and called the experiment an attempt to find...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Set Up for Graduate School of Arts and Sciences | 11/1/1946 | See Source »

A key phase of the whole matter which is often glossed over, according to Crossman, is the fact that "Palestine is a tremendous, model socialist experiment. Socialism is dynamite--if it is aided, every Arab feudal regime in the Middle East is doomed. The Arab politician knows this all too...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Labor M.P. Crossman Calls on U.S. to Act On Palestine Problem | 11/1/1946 | See Source »

Free but Not Easy. City College was the first tuition-free, city-owned U.S. college (nine cities now own colleges), and was started, according to its first president, West Pointer Horace Webster, as an "experiment [in] whether the highest education can be given to the masses."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Subway College | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

For their experiment, Drs. Guhl and Warren chose three young roosters of different breeds (so that the chicks they fathered could be identified). Put in a pen with 36 pullets, each soon found his place in the rooster "pecking order."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Peck & Peck | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

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