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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John and Margaret Perkins of the University of Michigan decided that the nation knew far too little about the presidents its colleges & universities were getting. They decided to make a survey of their own. Last week, in School and Society, they told what they had found out about the heads of 84 state and land-grant colleges...
...which in wartime had concentrated on bombers and transports (easily convertible to commercial use) while Britain bore down on fighter production. Instead, the British, who had led the world in developing jet engines, put their brains and money to work on jet transports, which they hoped would some day make current U.S. airliners obsolete...
...heavy loss by accepting a penalty clause. If the Comet was not completed on time and did not perform as specified, he would have to pay the cost himself. He won the bet. He reckons that his Comet can cut the New York-to-London run to six hours, make the round-trip possible in one day. As a result of such enterprise, Sir Geoffrey last week was getting a big share of Britain's aircraft export orders (?18.5 million for 1949's first half, a 48% increase over the 1948 rate). He already has orders from...
Like a purple spotlight, the plot is trained remorselessly on the sins and sufferings of a beautiful Irish aristocrat (Miss Bergman). Besides being a great lady, she is also a fratricide, a moral coward and a tosspot. Ingrid is supposed to make this heroine seem an appealing damsel in distress. The appeal, despite beautiful efforts, remains largely potential. The distress comes through without relief, mostly in long, pale-lipped monologues and maudlin confessions...
Large scale calculating machines may make it feasible for the government to set production goals for major industries, Frederick V. Waugh of President Truman's Council of Economic Advisers told a conference at Harvard last week...