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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brewery, reached for the phone and began calling numbers in the city's well-filled business directory. What he had to say was brief and to the point: "Tecnológico needs more money." In the next mail came the first trickle of what later amounted to a flood of checks made out to Monterrey Institute of Technology, a Mexican model-complete to the famed initials-of the U.S.'s Massachusetts Institute of Technology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: M. I. T. | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...only one can. He persuaded a grocer on Manhattan's Third Avenue to keep a list of daily "specials" next to the telephone so that clerks taking orders by phone could suggest extra items. Concluded Cummings: salesmen need constructive sales suggestions from the front office, instead of a flood of letters demanding "more sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SELLING: Meet the Boss | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...election also elevated Charles C. Osborne '52 to Narthex, Charles B. Flood '51 to Ibis, and Peter T. Dixon '51 to Treasurer. Frank E. Baker '51 becomes Business Manager, a post which has been reinstituted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cartoonist Fred Gwynne Is Elected Lampoon President | 12/17/1949 | See Source »

...great lost section of Biblical history, the story of Man from the Creation to the Great Flood, may soon be revealed to the world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Discovery of Aramaic Scroll May Reveal Biblical Mystery | 12/7/1949 | See Source »

Test Case. In Dayton, the first complete electric power failure since the 1913 flood, cut off a radio invitation to visit the formal opening of the city's new electric Dower plant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 5, 1949 | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

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