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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...full-scale Harvard Conference for World Peace opens its two day schedule at New Lecture Hall tonight in another effort to analyze the world's problems. The program starts...
...Department has no large-scale project, like the physicists' cyclotron, although it does most of its work in organic chemistry. Two of the more intelligible research jobs are those of Professor George B. Kistiakowski and Assistant Professor Leonard K. Nash...
Harvard needs $200,000 more in scholarship funds annually if it is to maintain its large scale scholarship program, John U. Monro '35 and F. Skiddy von Stade '38 told the Student Council last night...
...large-scale price support plan involves the problem of overproduction by farmers because the government is always giving them a good price. This problem is handled by marketing quotas, drawn up by the farmers themselves. A quota limits the amount of a commodity a farmer can market, if he wants to receive subsidy benefits. This method, in effect, gives the farmers monopoly powers. Under the Brannan plan, the quota system would be greatly expanded. This part of the plan has raised the howl of "government control" in Congress. The main argument against the quota system is that it is liable...
...Wringing-Out. Chuck's X-1, like all modern aircraft, was first tested while still on the drawing boards. Some manufacturers make scale models of their new airplanes and drop them from high altitudes. As they streak down to destruction, telemetering instruments report their performance by radio. After the airplane itself is assembled, the "contractor's" test pilots have the ticklish job of easing it into the air. In the case of high-speed aircraft, this is generally done at Muroc; civilian pilots like the field as much as the Air Force does. Untested aircraft are shipped...