Word: sloan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...differential analyzers, spectro-photometers, oscillographs and thryatron tubes. Out of its laboratories it has managed to produce such unexpected specimens as Humorist Gelett Burgess and Author Stuart Chase. But M.I.T.'s alumni are more apt to be of another sort: Donald Douglas of Douglas Aircraft, Alfred P. Sloan Jr. of General Motors, Gerard Swope of General Electric, and at least ten Du Fonts...
...Edith Sloan '49 and Jayne Prescott '51 are in charge of the production...
...well get used to the idea of more & more alcoholics. Now that people are living longer, the statistical curve of alcoholism is going on up with the curves of cancer and heart disease. This is the warning of an eye-opening book, The Problem Drinker (Duell, Sloan & Pearce; $3), published this week...
...black town car built for Mrs. Alfred P. Sloan Jr., wife of G.M.'s board chairman. It has interior fittings of silver, a chauffeur's umbrella, a pearl-grey clipped sheepskin carpet, a short-wave telephone, a gold compact, and a lifetime fountain pen. Nearby was a gunmetal "hardtop" convertible designed for President Wilson and christened the Coup de Ville. Upholstered in pleated gunmetal leather, it has a telephone, pull-out desk and engraved vanity case. ("Not that I use powder," quipped Wilson...
...Chairman Sloan's stand-pattish conclusion: "Our primary concern must continue to be with those who really know opera and support it, those who believe in its basic pattern, those who love opera for what it is, not what someone else thinks it should be." There was no immediate response from Met Critic No. 1 Billy Rose. George Sloan's shafts had been flung just 30 hours after Billy (see PEOPLE) had flown off on a trip around the world...