Word: months
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lanky, steely Dr. Leonard Carmichael's odd stepping stone to academic promotion is research in sensory psychology and physiology. Only 18 month's ago he left a professorship and the psychology laboratory at Brown University for the deanship of the arts and sciences faculty and a new laboratory, built especially for him, at the University of Rochester. A graduate of Tufts College and a Harvard Ph.D.. Dr. Carmichael had taught also at Princeton, Harvard and Clark University, but won renown for research, not teaching. Last week Researcher Carmichael, only 39, became a college president. He will take...
...Every month as planes get larger (see p.47), airports seem to get comparatively smaller, more dangerous. To the shame of U. S. commercial aviation, which leads the world in volume, the airport at the U. S. capital is one of the world's most dangerous. While Berlin was making a fine airport even finer, Washington could do no better last week than agree to regulate traffic around its 140-acre Hoover Field "to prevent collisions." Too close to military fields, cut in half by a public road, overhung by high tension wires, a bluff and an omnipresent Goodyear blimp...
...worked hard, and in 1933 he was put in charge of the accounting of Interstate Hosiery. Because of the activities of Mr. Marien, Interstate Hosiery statistics are highly dubious, but a rough guess by officers at its current net assets last week was $925,000. Every month Mr. Marien went to the company mills at Lansdale, Pa. and looked over the books. Every month he went back to Manhattan with a report in which the figures for cash on hand, accounts receivable and inventories were pure, purple hyperbole. When anyone asked him how Interstate Hosiery was doing, he replied with...
Anybody could have found him out by comparing his reports with the books at the mill, but nobody did. When, early this month, Homes & Davis accidentally heard what had been going on, they promptly discharged him. Very soon they asked him to come back for a while to straighten things out. Mr. Marien's overstatements had been so exuberant-in 1936 to the extent of $879,000-that the officers had voted themselves big bonuses and paid much too much in taxes. But apparently Mr. Marien himself had not acted for profit. To Interstate Hosiery officials he could...
...cinema star's face is her fortune, and her agent gets 10%. When early this month Agent Myron Selznick tried to double Cinemactress Loretta Young's salary (about $35,000 a picture) and get her the right to work for other studios than Twentieth Century-Fox,* outraged Producer Joseph M. Schenck ordered him off the lot. Last week observers thought this tiff might have reverberations: As new president of the Association of Motion Picture Producers, Inc., forceful Producer Schenck could influence other executives to follow his lead. The Selznick agency, Producer Schenck said, had tried to jack...