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Colleges and graduate schools throughout the country will have to adjust themselves to new conditions arising from the disappearance of large private fortunes and the weakening of the nation's middle class, Dean Wallace B. Donham of the Business School said yesterday in his annual report...
...than the claim) and one-third of Mr. Roosevelt's record-breaking number of vetoes goes to claim bills each year-by law he must give a reason for each veto, which means costly research all over again. So he suggested legislation empowering the various executive departments to adjust claims up to $1,000, with claims over $500 to be reviewed by the Attorney General; that U.S. district courts be given jurisdiction over such tort claims up to $7,500, with right of appeal to the Court of Claims...
Getting Used to It. Men can adjust themselves to Antarctic living, but their bodies acquire a new balance, reported Physiologist Ernest E. Lockhart. The repeated stimulus of low temperatures makes blood pressure increase by 25 to 35% and makes the rates of respiration and heart-beat decrease somewhat. Basal metabolism is about 10 to 15% lower than in temperate climates. These reactions were unexpected, for they do not occur among Eskimos...
Defeat. In Salem, Ore., eight years after he bought his uniform as State Police Superintendent, Charles P. Pray gave it away, explained: "I just couldn't adjust myself to wearing...
...Heinkel. A high explosive nests in a cavity at the headless end of an aluminum-alloy rivet. When heat is applied to the head by an electric riveting gun, the charge explodes at the other end, forms a "blind" head, sets the rivet. Explosive charges can be controlled to adjust the size and shape of the head to within .02 in. This breaks a major 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...