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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...projects. One is a $149 million El Chocón hydroelectric project on the Limay River by a 27-firm British-French-Italian combine to provide 650,000 kw. of power, irrigate 250,000 acres of parched croplands. Another is a plan to exploit 200 million tons of 55.6%-grade iron ore found twelve years ago south of the Negro River. The government has also approved plans by Houston's Butadiene & Chemical Corp. to invest $40 million for three big petrochemical plants for synthetic rubber, carbon black and butadiene gas near Comodoro Rivadavia, plus another $17 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Operation Patagonia | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...direction was to increase the cost from ten dollars flat fee for an unlimited number of tests to five dollars registration fee and eight dollars for each test. The new rate takes effect this year, but the tests already cost between thirty and fifty dollars apiece to administer and grade...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: High Cost of Testing | 3/26/1959 | See Source »

...Williams has complaints other than those arising from the academic personality. He has little use for the grading system, and especially for the university's tendency to equate academic standards with the number of low grades given--"the domineering element in the student's relation to his education is--the grade." He expresses his skepticism of: admissions examinations, small classes, general education, restricted college enrollments, long presidential tenures, professor-administrators, and the "publish or perish" theory. On the credit side, he thinks that the high schools are better than they were thirty years ago. He debunks the professors who deplore...

Author: By Bryce E. Nelson, | Title: Modern University Professor: Does He Fiddle as Rome Burns? | 3/26/1959 | See Source »

Smog-Reducing Gasoline. Tidewater Oil Co. put on sale in Los Angeles a new-formula gasoline which, it says, cuts the amount of smog-forming hydrocarbons released into the air from motor exhausts on new cars, gas pumps, etc. Price: same as other higher-grade gasolines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Mar. 23, 1959 | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

...Standing can not do this: their promotion is contingent upon credits received for their advanced work in high school. A student with A.P. in one or two courses, however, is under no compulsion to avoid repetition. So far, though, virtually no one has used his accelerated training for mere grade advantage: this academic honesty is essential to the program's continued success...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Advanced Placement Program Nears Maturity | 3/13/1959 | See Source »

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