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...Nebr.; Charles Eliot Ware memorial fellowship to William F. Pollock, of Santa Monica, Calif.; John Ware memorial fellowship to Herbert R. Morgan, of Bell, Calif.; Abraham A. Watson scholarship to Stuart G. Quan, of Oakland, Calif.; Whitman fellowship to Henry S. Fuller, of Washington, D.C.; and Dr. William Hunter Workman scholarship to Ping-Yang Liu, Research Fellow in Bacteriology and Immunology at the Harvard Medical School...
Weary Worker. Most revealing of all was a letter published by the Manhattan Communist weekly, New Masses. The New Masses said the letter was written by a skilled German worker and smuggled out of Germany. The straightforward style of an intelligent, high-grade workman was supporting evidence of its authenticity...
...plane-building bottleneck: riveting points which can be reached from only one side. So troublesome have been these inaccessible points that plane designs have often been modified to avoid them, but there are still 800 in an all-metal pursuit ship, 10,000 in a large bomber. A skilled workman, with costly tools, has been able to set two to four old-fashioned rivets per minute. But, with fairly simple tools, almost anyone can set 15 to 20 explosive rivets...
...Each workman is taught a slightly higher skill right on the job. Thus by easy stages unskilled workmen become semiskilled, semiskilled become skilled-and they produce while they learn. To help him run this system (called upgrading) Dr. Reeves drafted as assistants Socony Vacuum's Industrial Relations Manager Channing R. Dooley and Western Electric's Walter Dietz...
Most fascinating figure of the week: Prime Minister Winston Churchill slipping out of No. 10 Downing Street in tin hat and workman's blue overalls to have a look at the damage...