Word: tools
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...areas of the invisible. Geneticist Alfred H. Sturtevant described the linear order of genes; Calvin B. Bridges provided proof for the chromosome theory of heredity. In determining that genes control the synthesis of vitamins and amino acids, George Beadle discovered the bread mold, Neurospora, as an effective research tool. This has sped the progress of genetics a hundredfold, was partly responsible for the successful increased production of penicillin...
Bomb & Blast. Einstein was both a pacifist and a Zionist (in 1952 he was asked, but refused, to become the President of Israel). But as the Nazis destroyed the Jewish people, he made a decision that was to produce war's most destructive tool. One day in 1939, Einstein wrote a letter to President Roosevelt. Nazi scientists, he said, might soon be able "to set up a nuclear chain reaction in a large mass of uranium." "This requires action," F.D.R. said. Out of it came the Manhattan Project, and at last the atomic bomb...
...equal to-and in some instances better than -their able-bodied associates in such important factors as attendance, turnover, safety and productivity." The records of individual companies bear out the N.A.M. In Dallas, Chance Vought Aircraft employs 297 disabled among its 12,500 workers. Heart cases work at tool design, polio victims as technical writers, amputees operate automatic machines and lathes. The company found that there is not only less malingering and absenteeism, but better production and greater safety consciousness among this group than in any other. Ford Motor Co.'s assembly plant in the same city...
...industry, more and more jobs are opening up for handicapped workers. What the handicapped lose in flexibility because of their disability, they make up by concentrating on a single job, or a few jobs, learning to do them better. Firestone has 150 deaf employees alone. Allis-Chalmers, IBM, Hughes Tool, Procter & Gamble, Bui-ova Watch Co., Eli Lilly (drugs) have all found use for handicapped workers; electronic firms such as RCA, Western Electric, General Electric are using them to assemble delicate TV and radar circuits. At Lockheed's big plant at Marietta, Ga., the company last year saved...
...library is an 87-unit administrative problem, spending $2,400,000 a year, employing 342 people, and its head is thus one of the key administrators in the university bureaucracy. But his job is not merely organizational. The librarian controls what the Overseers have called "perhaps our most important tool in educating," in a university which the president has described as "almost built upon books." From his administrative office, the librarian can, if he wishes, play a larger role in defining the Harvard education than any other man at the University...