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Jobs for college men are scarce and will be scarcer, according to Seymour Harris, Professor of Economics...
Cortisone is even scarcer than ACTH. Merck & Co., who make it, in 37 tedious steps, from the bile of butchered cattle, expect to produce little more than 1½ ounces a week for the rest of the year. Last week it was announced that henceforth cortisone will be doled out to suitable hospitals and research institutions through a committee of the National Academy of Sciences. And Merck has stopped giving it away: the price now is $60 for a 300-milligram vial ($5,670 an ounce...
...Nebraska and other regions that produce alfalfa seed, wild bees are getting scarcer. In recent years, the yield of seed per acre has been steadily going down. Dr. Hixson has been crossing alfalfa strains, breeding them for gentleness of pistil. He hopes to develop flowers with so soft a wallop that even the timidest bee will not be afraid to alight on them...
Metals. Copper, zinc and lead may become even scarcer. The Munitions Board, which runs the U.S. stockpile of strategic materials, said it would step up its purchases of 68 critical items to bring the stockpile up to 39% of planned size. The $525 million authorized for purchases this fiscal year, said Board Chairman Donald F. Carpenter, had already been spent or contracted for, and Carpenter will ask Congress for another $310 million. The stockpile's eventual value...
...colleges and universities, wealthy donors, mysterious or otherwise, seemed to be getting scarcer and scarcer. But last week, Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute of Technology learned that they had not disappeared entirely. Founded in 1900 with a big endowment from Andrew Carnegie, Tech had just received $6,000,000 more from the W. L. (for William Larimer*) and May T. Mellon Foundation. Object: to set up a graduate school of industrial administration, the first of its kind...