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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Later, when Jesse became a superintendent, he found things less pleasant. Educationally, Kentucky was near the bottom of the nation's list ("Thank God for Arkansas," people used to say). The schools were often under the thumb of dictatorial trustees "who couldn't write their names, who would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Mountain Man | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Mr. President | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

U.S. aircraft builders were ready to go whenever anyone placed an order. Lockheed, whose Constellation is a prime target for the Comet to shoot at, has plans for a 40-passenger jet transport which it thinks could keep pace with the Comet and cost no more than a Connie to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: New Stars in the Sky | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...service filling station. Since thrifty motorists can save 5? a gallon by filling their own tanks, the "serve yourself" stations are spreading all over the Pacific Coast, sell 20 million gallons a month. Major oil companies squirm at the inroads they are making in the sales of regular stations owned or leased out by the majors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Out of Gas? | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

In a speech entitled Physiology and Computational Devices, William J. Crosier, professor of General Physiology, cautions that so-called "thinking machines" such as the Mark III can never take the place of the human mind. No machine, he points out, could over not up a problem or analyze the results...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Calculating Machines Can Yield National Industrial Production Goals, Expert Says | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

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