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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tendered resignation of Professor Burbank from the chairmanship of the Department of Economics will cause regret not only among his large body of personal friends, but among the members of the University as a whole. The retirement of such an able administrator from the helm of the largest department in college leaves the department adrift at an especially crucial moment. Yet one cannot help but admire his sparkling career in such a responsible position and feel that his relief from duty is well deserved...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DOCTOR PACKS HIS BAG | 6/14/1939 | See Source »

...least incompatible with the aristocratic conception, provided the latter is removed from the field of privilege. A good society should produce a natural leadership of the biologically and mentally superior. The best society-and here I agree with Walt Whitman-is the one which produces the largest number of healthy, happy, cooperative, competent human beings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Cartwheel Girl | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...September, out on the Farm Road that leads from Fairbanks past the University, Cap Lathrop hopes to have in operation the northernmost commercial radio station in the world, and the largest and most powerful (1,000 watts) in Alaska.* Its call letters: KFAR...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Cheechako Radio | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

Last week it started another job that may lead 62-year-old Board Chairman Willis Haviland Carrier and his company, largest in the business, into an entirely new field. Already air conditioning is an important factor in the textile industry, which uses controlled humidity to keep threads from breaking on high speed looms. Air conditioning's new job is to improve pig iron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Uniform Pig | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...giant dehumidifier cased in concrete. This installation, first of its kind, is being hooked up, not to any building but to Woodward's fiery blast furnaces where the 57-year-old company can turn out enough iron (annual capacity 450,000 tons) to make it the second largest Southern merchant producer ("merchants" produce pig iron for sale to foundries, mills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Uniform Pig | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

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