Word: rand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...manufacturers, big and small, poured in, chiefly to make products-pens, radios, brassieres, baby shoes-that needed a good deal of hand work and could be transported cheaply. Hastening to the island came Paper-Mate, General Electric, Maidenform, B.V.D., Consolidated Cigar, Weston, Union Carbide, Parke, Davis & Co., Remington Rand, Bostitch and others (see map). Last week the 667th factory-a cutlery plant in Gurabo -went into production. For the catalytic $40 million in loans, plant construction and promotion, Fomento got the island $275 million in investment, 80,000 new jobs. Like the moving needles on the instrument board...
...remarkable how few people realize that the Russian scientific tradition goes back so far," says Mathematician Richard Bellman of the Rand Corp. "In some fields, we've always been behind." It was the 19th century Russian Botanist Dmitry Ivanovsky who discovered the first plant virus. Dmitry Pryanishnikov originated soil research, and world-famed Dmitry Mendeleev charted the elements and drew up the periodic scale still found in every high school laboratory. Had Aleksandr Popov worked a bit faster, he might well have wrested from Marconi credit for inventing the radio. In 1904 Ivan Pavlov won a Nobel Prize...
Since the Program for Harvard College has not completed its publicity drive, the Medical School is still conducting "a very quiet campaign," Rand said. He estimated that an all-out effort to obtain contributions would probably begin in the Fall...
...Rand predicted that a library for the Medical School, the first objective of the fund drive, would be started by 1960. "There is no other area in the University where the quality of the department is so far above the quality of the library," he commented...
Though no deadline has been set for attaining the $58 million goal, Rand expressed the hope that the program would be completed "well within ten years." The amount to be raised is not definite, he added, since the goal is based on the needs of the Medical Center. Whenever a contribution is made to one of the seven hospitals which comprise the Center rather than to the fund, the goal for the drive is lowered...