Word: headful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Asking for Credit. Everywhere, installment buying was on the increase, a sure sign that cash reserves had been thinned down considerably. At the same time, credit (at banks and loan companies) was harder to get. Graham Towers, head of the government's Industrial Development Bank, sounded the keynote: "We must scrutinize applications for credit with ever-increasing care...
...wealthy California citrus grower and real estate man, Pitzer graduated with top honors from CalTech, did important war work whose nature is still a secret, and became an instructor in chemistry at the University of California when only 23. As head of AEC research, the bright geometry student will have to solve problems that no teacher has ever figured...
...Mahoney was not convinced. He thought the hearings were merely staged so businessmen could "rationalize why taxes shouldn't be increased." He was in favor of an excess profits tax, and he has a good chance to head the Joint Committee on the Economic Report in the next Congress, a strategic spot from which to push such...
...Atomic Energy Commission, worried over the enormous problem of integrating its Government-controlled giant into a free-enterprise economy, wanted to know why. It called in a committee of businessmen, headed by able James W. Parker, 62, utility engineer, onetime head of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and president of the Detroit Edison Co. This week, Parker's committee reported back. Its answer was a blast at AEC. (Snapped one AEC staffer: the report clearly showed that industry was "drooling" to grab off atomic energy processes...
Philip James McNiff has been ap- pointed the head librarian of Lamont. He received an S.B. in library service from Columbia in 1940 and has served on the staff of Widener since 1942. Frank N. Jones '30 was selected as assistant librarian