Word: shuts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...longest nationwide steel strike in U.S. history. The huge steel inventories piled up in warehouses when the strike began back in mid-July had dwindled so drastically that manufacturers were starting to schedule layoffs for lack of steel. A dozen appliance manufacturers warned that they would have to shut down completely by mid-October unless the strike ended...
...final method of saving funds, House dining halls could be closed on Sunday mornings. The suggestion, however, that they be shut during an entire weekend penalizes the majority of students who remain in the Houses or bring dates for an inexpensive meal. The dining hall, in the last analysis, serves as the center of a House weekend, as the locations for dances and for dining...
...fierce radiation in the reactor appeared to bother the bacteria hardly at all. When the reactor was shut down but still highly radioactive, they multiplied fast. Even when it was running full blast, they held their own. Since they normally divide every 20 minutes or so, this meant that radiation was killing only about as many as managed to live and divide. Just how much radiation the Pseudomonas got is hard to estimate, because the water circulates at varying distances from the core of the reactor, but Dr. Fowler thinks they may have absorbed more than 10 million rep (roentgen...
Died. Dr. Abraham Flexner, 92, educator who began a lifelong fight for better education by issuing a sensational report (1910) on the condition of U.S. medical schools that caused half of the schools to shut down, the other half to overhaul their curriculums, as a member of the General Education Board of the Rockefeller Foundation cajoled multimillions out of wealthy moguls to reorganize American medical education, founded (1930) Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study and persuaded Dr. Einstein to leave Germany to become one of its first members; in Falls Church...
Shocked university officials suspended Kappa Sigma from the campus, put all 49 members on probation. The house was shut down for good, the first such action in U.S.C. history. Said grieving Arthur L. Swanson, Dick's dentist brother: "Those boys are guilty of taking my brother's life...