Word: productions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unlike U. S. industrialists, who are worried about their markets but satisfied with their product, U. S. college presidents are dubious about their product, are tinkering with new methods of manufacture. Higher education is a rapaciously competitive industry in which small colleges compete for teachers, students and money with big ones, State universities with private, city colleges with country. Threatening the whole established order of higher education are two radical, current experiments: Stringfellow Barr's St. John's College in Annapolis, Md., which has a fixed curriculum of 100 classics, and presidentless Black Mountain College in North Carolina...
Last week as the U. S. commencement season opened, college presidents, who differ from other manufacturers in shipping their goods only once a year, began to show their 1939 product. They expected to turn out about 155,000 graduates (a few more than last year), only slightly damaged by war scares and goldfish gulping. But observers who wanted to evaluate contemporary U. S. higher education turned their eyes not on these untried graduates but on the college presidents themselves (for a representative group, see adjacent columns...
...silk stockings sound like the answer to a maiden's prayer. Are they on the market as yet? If so, where, please? If not-who is making them? Surely not General Motors? Whoever is making them can probably use another experimenter to test their wearability as a new product-so if you can give me any information, I will be more than grateful...
...thinly in recent years, had developed a photoelectric indicator ("robot eye") which, by judging the color and brilliance of a Bessemer heat better than human eyes can, made it possible to turn out steel with Bessemer rapidity but of a uniform quality comparable to that of the open-hearth product. The J. & L. researchers guarded their secret vigilantly, declared darkly not long ago that two other companies had tried to swipe...
Designer Davis' wing, flush-riveted and smooth of contour, had justified his prediction that it would be 20% more efficient than any in the air today. The product of ten years of work, it had been tried in Caltech's aeronautical laboratories and in test rigs of its designer's own devising. Whether he had achieved a smooth flow of air over virtually its entire surface as National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics has done with its new wing curve (TIME, May 15), David Davis modestly declined...