Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Michigan State took first, overpowering defending champion Yale by 44 to 30 1/2 points. NYU, Seton Hall, Cornell, Penn State, and Harvard followed in that order. Twenty-five teams scored out of the 46 which entered the meet...
Glaring at a list of 500 AEC scholarship-holders, Michigan's Homer Ferguson demanded to be told how many Communists there were among them. "Perhaps as many as three," Lilienthal admitted. One of these, explained Dr. Shields Warren, AEC's director of biology and medicine, was "an outstanding student" named Isador Edelman. Edelman, 29, had applied for a fellowship at the University of California's Berkeley laboratory (where he would have been close to secret work), had been turned down because an FBI check disclosed "derogatory information." But because he "showed extraordinary promise," AEC granted...
Some manufacturers were finding ways to cut prices while retaining all the features of their old higher-priced lines. The Detroit-Michigan Stove Co. brought out a new line of gas ranges to retail 12% to 20% below the market for competing ranges. With department-store sales slipping behind last year's, more industries were facing the problem of whether to cut production or take a chance with ingenious cost-cutting practices. In many cases ingenuity was already paying...
...reported by the Michigan C.I.O. News, Stricker told the subcommittee: "In this particular class that I attended, all the instructor did was to put percentages on the blackboard. I am sure that members of the class don't known arithmetic. Well, to discuss the Economic Report of President Truman with people who don't know how to count, they ought to teach them about the Constitution...
...days later, the Michigan Daily, the college paper, commented severely on the whole affair. An editorial stated: "Very evidently, some of the large Michigan corporations are working to destroy the service this university has offered...