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Your new-look Business section rates a pay boost, "Time Clock's" short, punchy capsules being beautifully attuned to the businessman's cadence. However, that old mechanical watchdog-the factory time clock-is regarded by millions of Americans as an annoying and anachronistic regimentation. When 14 of them here were unceremoniously junked in favor of an employee honor system, employees and onlookers all over America stood up and cheered...
...rods, etc. and commercial production of titanium was started by Du Pont and Titanium Metals Corp. But the Air Force wanted titanium desperately not only in its pure state but as an ideal substitute for columbium as a hardening agent in alloys. It pressed for a huge program to boost production to 22,000 tons by 1955 (current production: 3,400 tons a year). A long fight ensued. Some defense officials argued that with sheet titanium costing as much as $20 a lb., such a program, with a guarantee to buy all the titanium produced, might cost the Government...
Scholastically and financially, the new college did not always fare well. Students with the necessary qualifications for college work were so few that until 1908, the College maintained a preparatory school to boost applicants to the necessary academic level. And in the '80s the school was debt-ridden to the point that the president offered to resign so that his salary might be used to keep Lawrence from buckling...
Scholastically and financially, the new college did not always fare well. Students with the necessary qualifications for college work were so few that until 1908, the College maintained a preparatory school to boost applicants to the necessary academic level. And in the '80s the school was debt-ridden to the point that the president offered to resign so that his salary might be used to keep Lawrence from buckling...
TITANIUM, the wonder metal that is even lighter and stronger than magnesium, is in for a huge expansion program. Planemakers are so eager for the heat-resistant metal for air frames and jet engines that Defense Secretary Wilson is expected to approve a $500 million program to boost output to 22,000 tons a year (1952 total: 992 tons). Under the plan Du Pont, and partners National Lead and Allegheny Ludlum, already in production, would raise production sharply; others, like Chicago's Crane Co., would get into the field with the help of Government loans and purchase agreements...