Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Porkpies & Primai Donnas. In March 1943, Major General Leslie R. Groves chose Oppenheimer to head the new Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. It was probably the best decision that Groves ever made. Oppie, who had never even been chairman of a physics faculty, became top executive of a $60 million company with 4,500 workers, including such eminent physicists as Enrico Fermi and Niels Bohr...
Comeback In Rails. The oil industry, as usual, led the prosperous parade. The major companies showed increases in net profits over the third quarter of 1947 ranging from 35% for Union Oil Co. of California (to $7,043,427) to 82% for Skelly Oil Co. (to $10.6 million...
Gold-Plated Steel. In steel, every major company's profits were up, in many cases to new highs. Like Republic Steel a week earlier, Bethlehem reported the best quarterly net in its history; it was up 121% to $22.5 million. U.S. Steel, which made news chiefly by not declaring an extra dividend (which Wall Street had hoped for), trailed with a rise of 20% to $34.5 million. But Big Steel's net did not tell the whole story. Because its depreciation reserves "were not sufficient to cover the cost" of replacing property at current high prices, the company...
...convicted Nazi general really guilty? The question stirs some qualms in his idealistic prosecutor, a U.S. Army major (Ray Milland). Major Milland's search for the facts might have turned up some interesting moral issues-or at least some effective melodrama. Instead, there is only a sort of slow-motion cops & robbers chase in an uncertain direction. By the time Milland's search is patly ended, even the realistic backgrounds have begun to take on a phony look...
...little reasons include many of the perennial complaints of Harvard men. No spiked punch or liquor at House dances, in some cases not-very-tasty food, restrictive parietal rules, and other annoyances. The big reasons are major lacks in the House programs. Some Houses simply do not offer a wide enough selection of extra-curricular goings-on to stimulate many members. And, most important, the Houses have never succeeded in what was to be a major function, that of serving as centers of education for large numbers of students. Forums and "concentration dinners" do exist, but the House have failed...