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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rumors have circulated to the effect that the Committee may have in mind shelving the whole matter until a later date when construction costs drop to a lower level. Saltonstall refused to answer all specific questions but did confess that he considered building expenses today "quite high...
...Harvard undergraduates, with or without female companions, will be seated according to their academic class. The above diagram is HAA director William J. Bingham's best guess as to how the new seating plan will work out. If any one class takes up less space than anticipated, however, the lower classes will move...
...next day the girl introduced me to an old man who was going to the jail to see his son. I was unshaven, dressed in rags, and I guess I managed to pass for a lower, class Paraguayan -although I narrowly missed becoming a permanent guest of the house when the guard asked me a question in Guaraní, the language of the Paraguayan pueblo. The old man spoke up for me and the guard, satisfied, admitted us into the unpaved courtyard crammed with prisoners. There was a big parade going on in another part of town, and I suppose...
...Curtice was sent "around the corner" in Flint to Buick. The depression had hit the whole industry, but Buick, which had nothing to meet the switch of buyers to lower-priced lines, almost fell apart. In that year it made only 40,621 cars...
Phenol & Foxes. Sharp-eyed George Humphrey always seems to be looking ahead. Long before steelmen began worrying about exhausting the Mesabi's rich ores, his pilot plants were seeking economic ways of extracting the plentiful lower-grade taconite ores. (To find new iron ore sources, Humphrey's explorers, supplied by air, are also probing in Labrador.) Though many think coal a dying industry, Humphrey and Standard Oil Development are building a pilot plant to make gas (and later gasoline) from coal by burning it right in the mine. Three years ago Humphrey moved into Durez Plastics & Chemicals...