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Usually, however, M.I.T. pranks have a more scientific twist. A few years ago when Massachusetts Ave. was being re-paved, one of the workmen left his steam-roller parked overnight along the curb. As a precaution, he dismantled certain key parts of the motor and piled them up on the seat. But he underestimated the M.I.T. man's ingenuity. The steamroller was soon restored to running condition and was found next morning at Harvard in President Conant's front yard...
AUTO FREIGHT CHARGES for destinations in the South and West will be cut by Ford Motor Co. to satisfy complaints by dealers. Though Ford will still charge "phantom freight," i.e., on the basis of mileage from Detroit no matter how near dealers are to local assembly plants, the company will cut the charges as much as $49 on a Ford and $58 on a Lincoln. However, part of the reduction will be counteracted by a $16 wholesale price increase on Fords...
...Michigan's Upper Peninsula lie vast iron deposits that have long resisted ore-hungry steelmen. The ore is jasper, a diamond-hard rock that blunts ordinary drills, is too low in iron content (about 33%) for conventional refining methods. Five years ago Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co., with Ford Motor Co., set up pilot operations to mine and process* jasper by a new method. Last week Cleveland-Cliffs and Inland Steel Co. announced that they will build, near Marquette, Mich., the nation's first big jasper-mining and processing project. At peak production the Marquette plants will grind some...
Traffic patterns, laid out in 1840 when Cambridge had 6500 residents and Longfellow was inspired to write about the spreading chestnut tree, are today hopelessly inadequate. There are 33,000 registered motor vehicles. There are another 5,000 University-registered cars, and many more unregistered or indirectly connected with the University. Both numbers are growing daily...
...automakers, the recent cutbacks did not prevent them from turning out their 1,000,000th new motor vehicle of 1956 this week, only three days behind the 1955 pace. At Chrysler President Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert announced that in Chrysler's 1955 comeback net sales totaled $3.5 billion, 67% better than 1954, with earnings of $100 million, more than 400% better than 1954. Said Colbert: "1956 will be highly competitive, but we believe it will be a good market...