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Carmichael points up the problem of getting educated men, and trained experts--doctors or radar men--into the Services. "Our strength as a nation is based on a diversity of skills," he says. "We need men in the army who are trained and can improvise and invent . . ." He thinks, along with Cole and Bronk, that U.M.S. would not be a success in keeping Services standards high...
Branch Rickey was born too late to invent baseball, but he has thought up more innovations than anybody else in the history of the game...
Assistant Physics Professor Willard Geer of the University of Southern California liked to tell his class to go out and invent something. Once, while lecturing them on the "scanning disk" method of color television (TIME, Nov. 28), he suggested that better reception could be had with an electronic tube- if someone would invent one. When he mentioned it to his wife that night, she said: "You'd better get busy and invent it yourself...
Happy Homes. Wars and epidemics now hold little terror for Metropolitan, which has so much cash that it has been forced to invent new ways of investing it. One of the most successful: its eight apartment house developments in New York, California and Virginia (total capacity: 125,000 people), in which the Metropolitan has invested $300 million in 30 years. To Metropolitan's 33 million individual policyholders, one of the most reassuring facts is that the company's checks have long borne the signatures of Washington (Lawrence, third vice president) and Lincoln. Soon they will have...
...like the eastand westbound sections of the streamliner, however identical they appear to be, [these laboratories] are simply not headed in the same direction. The aim of science is to discover new knowledge and new principles. The aim of technology ... is to invent new devices, new machines, new processes, new techniques. And in the long run the new developments in technology will be based only upon the new knowledge uncovered by science...