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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...neon-bright Biologist Julian Huxley told the delegates what had been done in this direction during his second year as director general. His report mentioned a "pilot project" in Nyasaland for the education of natives in literacy, health, agriculture and commu nity living. There had been a survey started on re-education in Germany, and the launching of an "Inquiry into the Tensions Affecting International Understanding," to find out why people get so mad that they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: Without Distinction | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

...going to lonely Koror Island in the Palau Archipelago. There their main job will be to turn a Japanese weather station into the first of the Pacific War Memorial's chain of scientific centers. The Hills will also set up a tide gauge for the U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey. (Incidentally, they will take care of a colony of wasps from Zanzibar which, it is hoped, will check a plague of coconut-eating beetles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Active Memorial | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

...there was a shortage of interns, and New York City hospitals began sending attendants to ride the ambulances. The attendants were given a six-week course in first aid and told to do their best. After the war, there was still a shortage of interns; besides, a survey showed that 7% of all ambulance calls were "unnecessary"; 3% of the patients were D.O.A. ("dead on arrival"); occasionally, ambulances merely acted as taxis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Reconversion | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

Productivity. Before World War II U.S. workers produced 2.8 times as much per man-hour as British workers. So the International Labor Office in Geneva reported, following a survey of 32 industries for the period 1935-39. In agriculture and transportation, productivity was about the same in both countries. The U.S. productive edge was highest in automobiles, radios, tires, tin cans, etc., where the "scope of automatic machines is great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Facts & Figures, Dec. 6, 1948 | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

Bender and the Council first clashed on the question of an investigation of dining halls by outside experts. The Dean said such a survey was opposed by the Administration for two reasons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Outlines Food Poll | 12/1/1948 | See Source »

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