Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hoping to quadruple production by 1961, India has brought in the services of four different nations to do it. At Durgapur in West Bengal, 400 British experts are supervising 29,000 Indians in building a mill that will begin operation next fall. Also in West Bengal, in Jamshedpur, the Pittsburgh of India, U.S. engineers of the Kaiser Engineers Division are just about finished with a new 1,000,000-ton addition to the Tata Iron & Steel Co., a private investment made possible by the World Bank's highest single industrial loan: $75 million. But it is Soviet-sponsored Bhilai...
...been lured by more money in industry. With NBC affiliates donating the early half-hour on 149 network stations (151 next semester), the $1,112,000 project was financed by the Ford Foundation and hefty grants from industry (Bell Telephone, Standard Oil of California, General Foods, IBM, U.S. Steel, Pittsburgh Plate Glass). Some 250 colleges jumped aboard, signed up 5,000 regular students, who pay an average $45 tuition and get from two to five hours of credit (depending on the college) if they pass their exams. The first-semester finals are due this week...
...Sputnik appetite for science. But the show could have been a nucleonic turkey without its M.C.: Dr. Harvey E. White, 57, a top University of California physicist, who got the $38,000 yearly job (v. $12,000 at U.C.) after previously enlivening a TV high school physics course in Pittsburgh. A lanky, friendly, precise talker, Dr. White is no jazzy showman ; he drones at times like a farm agent exhaling a market report. Yet he somehow makes physics a sort of cosmic cooking course that can fascinate anyone. White's secret is superb preparation: he spends twelve hours every...
...London's City predicted that the Treasury would quickly approve the Tube-Reynolds takeover, Alcoa in Pittsburgh tersely gave notice that it had "no further interest" in the matter. Privately, Alcoa officials fumed that the Aluminium management had led them down the garden path by airily assuring Alcoa that Treasury approval was routine. The worst of it was that once Alcoa had signed the $8.40 agreement, it could not go into the market and offer more without making the $8.40 look bad. To top off Alcoa's unhappiness, its chief competitor had a major European affiliate; Alcoa...
...Truesdale, Jr. '44, committee chairman, gives top seeds in the annual tourney to Diehl Mateer, recent winner of the U.S. Open at Pittsburgh, and Henri Salaun, current national amateur champion. Both have dominated the last nine New York tournaments. Mateer has won five, and Salaun has won four times, including the last...