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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...signalers: the U.S. Supreme Court, which in 1930, after a hot legal battle between Illinois and other major Great Lakes areas, had limited the amount of water Chicago could divert from Lake Michigan for canal use to 1,500 cu. ft. a second. Reason for the limitation: by diverting larger amounts in the past (claimed the Great Lakes group), Chicago had reduced the lakes' water level to a point harmful to lake shipping. The court's new decree, answering an Illinois petition backed by seven other Mississippi Valley states and actively opposed only by Wisconsin among the Great...
London peopled a whole world with semibarbarians-bucko mates on tramp steamers, sealers in the North Pacific. Seattle waterfront toughs, stiffs riding the rods of Western freight cars-all larger than life, and, because of that, something less than real. This scissors-and-paste collection of his work (with the important dogs missing) is a valuable book for U.S. readers -who have begun to forget London's parables of violence, partly because they see the realities of violence all over the world...
While the U.S. packaging industry has grown larger and larger-multiplying its volume sixfold in the past quarter-century -the number of companies has grown smaller and smaller. Last week the Justice Department struck hard at the industry's urge to merge. In an antitrust suit filed against Owens-Illinois Glass Co., it asked that the No. 1 U.S. glass-container maker (1955 sales: $370 million) be forced to sell off National Container Corp., the No. 3 paper-container maker (1955 sales: $95 million), acquired in a stock swap last October...
Another possibility is that professors could dedicate a far larger proportion of their time to tutorial work. If, as some professors feel, most lectures have little value as educational tools, it seems that they might use their time in some more fruitful way. While departmental appointments now tend to be based on need for an expert on a given subject, and thus come with an obligation to offer courses in that specialty, perhaps the need for such courses could often be met equally well by offering reading courses...
World's Biggest. Like many another U.S. shipyard, Ingalls is not equipped to build the large ships now most urgently in demand, but it is already benefiting from the rush of orders to the larger eastern yards. "We are not going after the vessels of 60,000 tons and up," says Ingalls' President Monro Lanier. "But the demand for ships of that size is a stimulus that takes up market space in larger yards, leaving smaller ships for yards of less capacity." Although many U.S. yards, especially in the West, have not yet felt the initial boom, shipyards...