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Died. David Stewart Iglehart, 72, recently retired head of W. R. Grace & Co. (TIME, May 20), dean of the Long Island polo-playing set, father of crack Poloists Stewart (10-goal handicap) and Philip; in Old Westbury...
Before the war, applications were handled as they came in, but the school has now decided to sift all applications six weeks before the beginning of the term so that late starters will be under no handicap...
...Engine. But Britain's motormakers could not deny that, by U.S. lights, they still had much to learn about mass production. Hit-or-miss assembly-line techniques, short production runs and poor standardization of parts (the basis of mass production) keep unit costs up, output down. Most serious handicap of all is an antiquated supply system. Big British manufacturers depend on as many as 300 little independent firms for parts and materials. Lack of vital supplies held one recent week's production of Hillman Minxes down to eight cars-each of which, by company estimates, cost a staggering...
three classes--the "fundamental conditions which naturally tend to handicap a tutorial system," complications resulting from the effects of war, and individual departmental policy toward tutorial...
...superlatives. A record crowd (80,200) laid the largest amount ($805,082) in California racing history on the noses of the largest number of horses (23) ever to run in the richest Santa Anita Handicap in history. The winner: a six-year-old outsider named War Knight (one of eleven "field" horses), which paid $15.30 for a $2 mutuel ticket...