Word: performer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Giant U.S. Steel Corp. last week announced that it would soon perform a near-miracle: save critical tin supplies, make better and cheaper tinplate at the same time. The miracle-worker is a new process which plates by the electrolytic method instead of the old-fashioned dip method. To do the job, Big Steel is dishing out $15,500,000 of its own cash for new plants & equipment at Pittsburgh, Chicago and Birmingham. Besides this, the company is installing six new lines to treat black plate (i.e., thin steel plate) chemically. When lacquered by can-makers, chemically treated black plate...
...other articles perform the Guardian's usual feat of clarifying the issues without bringing the solution any nearer. Of the two undergraduate authors, Jerry Brown, '44, has done the better job. His "Mcdicine for the Masses" is a clear and orderly exposition of the problems and definitions involved, but the conclusion cannot be termed either novel or startling. Richard Weinberg's "Paying for the War" contributes little. The leading article of the issue, General Arnold's three- and-one-half page dissertation on "The College Man in Aviation," is a hodge-podge of personal reminiscences, a muddy description of life...
Four-hundred youth leaders of the Boston area heard Farley, Miss Emily Everett of the Boston Social Agencies Council, and Miss Hattle Smith, of the Massachusetts Labor Board open the meeting with the phophecy that civilian youth will inevitably be asked to perform serious duties during communal emergencies...
Room Service. The new War Shipping Administration, which must perform the miracle needed, was whipped into shape last week by its chief, Rear Admiral Emory S. ("Jerry") Land. He appointed four aides...
...your article, too often Congressmen yield to their desire for reelection instead of to their knowledge of what is right or wrong for the whole country, then I fail to see where Democracy has anything to recommend it above Fascism or Naziism. If we must be bribed to perform a simple duty, then the quality of the duty must be largely determined by the size of the bribe. And if our Congressmen feel that with the assurance of a lifetime income . . . they can render better service, then God help us and all the peoples who are wholeheartedly fighting...