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Soon after his graduation, he worked with an export-import company, but left that to accept a position in England with a British-Russian trading corporation. His "acquired practical knowledge" of international economics and world trade, he confesses modestly, helped him become president of the second largest corporation in Russia, where he was in charge of all exportation and importation of timber...
Associated Universities, the group which developed the Brookhaven Electron Accelerator, is sponsoring the project, which was financed by the National Science Foundation. The Foundation's grant was "one of the largest they have ever given," according to Menzel...
...traveled on his lonely way is shown by the largest-ever collection of Dove's work now starting a crosscountry tour at Manhattan's Whitney Museum, and a new book by Art Critic Frederick S. Wight (Arthur G. Dove; University of California; $2). Together they go far to establish Dove's status as the U.S.'s first abstract painter and a pivotal figure in contemporary...
...capacity, the highest of any month this year. By week's end. producers were running closer to 71%. The reason for the steel upsurge was simply that many firms had cut inventories so low that they were hustling to order before a shortage set in. Jones & Laughlin, fourth largest producer, upped its output to 82% as a result of "a sharp increase in orders.'' As operations in the Youngstown, Ohio district rose to 64% of capacity v. 56% the week before, hundreds of workers trooped back to work. Furnaces glowed again: U.S. Steel relit a blast furnace...
Slavic A, the new non-intensive introduction to Russian, is now the largest in size of the Slavic language courses with an enrollment of 144 students, 119 more than expected. Sixty students are taking Slavic Aab, the intensive course, although the Department anticipated only...