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Despite industry's frantic efforts, the demand for engineers will continue to outstrip the supply-unless a sudden, unlikely end to world tension should bring a cutback of war production. The class of '52 is graduating into a technicians' world and an engineers' market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Engineer Shortage | 4/21/1952 | See Source »

...nothing wrong." But something was wrong. Harry Truman came away from the Florida sunshine into the blackest cloud of murk that has risen over Washington in many a year. Day after day, revelations of corruption in his Administration are piling up, amid indications that the scandals may grow to outstrip Teapot Dome. In political urgency, the graft scandals overshadow the Korean truce talks and the confused debate over U.S. mobilization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: From Sunshine Into Murk | 12/17/1951 | See Source »

...woven with other fabrics or used alone. Davidson says it is washable, mothproof, almost shrinkproof, and resistant to strong chemicals. At $1.25 a lb., manufacturers may find dynel a cheap substitute for wool, which, for similar use, sells at $2.15 to $3.50 a lb. Since dynel orders already far outstrip the company's annual production of 2,000,000 lbs., work was started last week to double the output. If dynel catches on, Union Carbide hopes to expand to as much as 40 million lbs. a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Enter Dynel | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

From the South, Champion Paper & Fiber Co.'s Charles W. Dabney Jr. reported that the South's second-half business would outstrip 1950's first six months. "Employment appears to have been stabilized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Compass Pointers | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

...Europe last year talking with artists and looking at their work. He found a number of young painters and sculptors that TIME readers should know about, and reported on them in subsequent TIME stories, but he came home convinced that the old men of French art still far outstrip their followers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jun. 19, 1950 | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

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