Word: stanford
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Hoover Jr. was born in London in 1903. One of his earliest memories is of riding into an Australian town with his father on a wagon loaded with freshly mined gold. He graduated from his father's university, Stanford, in 1925, and from Harvard's School of Business Administration, became an oil-exploration engineer, worked for the governments of Iran, Peru, Venezuela, Chile, Brazil. He founded the United Geophysical Co. in Pasadena and stayed on as president after it was bought out by Union Oil of California. He was also an airline engineer (with Western Air Express...
Dirt and grime alone are not responsible for Los Angeles' notorious, eye-stinging smog. The real villain is Southern California's much-touted sunshine, reports the Stanford Research Institute after a seven-year study...
...Stanford's researchers have yet to discover exactly how ozone is formed. But they believe that it results from a photochemical reaction of sunlight and unknown materials in the air. Furthermore, as ozone increases, so does smog. Los Angeles' sunshine has made the atmosphere the most ozone-laden in the world: as high as 80 parts per 100 million parts of air. The solution to the Los Angeles smog problem, according to the Stanford scientists: find out which materials react with the sun to form ozone, filter them out before they reach the open...
Continuing where the Stanford researchers left off, the Los Angeles area last week was launched on its biggest, most desperate smog investigation. For three months, during the height of the smog "season," scientific teams will analyze some 700 air samples each day at ten different sampling stations spread through the area, will attempt to discover exactly what causes smog to form and how it spreads its grimy pall across the landscape. Cost of the investigation...
...have a hand in the training of the nation's air reserve. For the past two years he has been waging a one-man crusade to get U.S. education to teach creative imagination. Last week-with the blessings of the Air University in Montgomery, Ala.-A.F.R.O.T.C. instructors from Stanford to the University of North Carolina were discussing ways to incorporate some of Osborn's ideas into their courses on problem solving...