Word: luria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Salvador Luria professor of biology, Boston University
...letting his own company be scrapped. He has brought big company management to a fragmented, ruggedly individualistic industry that was created by penniless Jewish immigrants who scooped up junk in back alleys, made fortunes overnight and handed down their small businesses from father to son. Ogden's Luria research department, the industry's first and biggest, is now testing a contraption to reduce a whole auto to egg-sized pellets that could be easily stoked into oxygen converters or other furnaces. In a business long suffering from an inferiority complex, Ablon has been able to attract graduates from...
...sluggish prices. No company has been hit harder than Manhattan's Ogden Corp., the world's biggest scrap company. Last month Ogden reported that sales-30% from scrap and the rest from other activities-dropped from $436 million in 1961 to $406 million last year; its Luria scrap division lost money for the first time in its 74-year history. Ogden's candid President Ralph Ablon, 46, admits that the scrapmen's current troubles stem partly from their past excesses. Says he: "During the sellers' market of the past, scrap acquired the characteristics of doubtful...
Singer characterizes his complex philosophy as "a kasha of mysticism, deism, and rationalism." Its sources are the Ten Commandments, Hume, Luria, the cabala, Sir Oliver Lodge, and William Crooks. His commitment to it, like his belief in demons, is total, if mildly ironic...
...addition to Edsall, the signers are Bernard D. Davis '36, professor of Bacteriology and Immunology; Donald R. Griffin '38, professor of Zoology; Cyrus Levinthal and S. E. Luria, professors of Biology at M.I.T., and Bentley Glass of Johns Hopkins University...