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...year ago, neither Dean Ajax nor any other engineering dean was being harassed that way. Engineers were momentarily a glut on the market. But now, M.I.T. found that every one of its prospective February graduates had at least one job lined up. CalTech had 404 requests in two weeks. Illinois Tech blinked to find that it was getting recruiting visits from top company executives. Some of them were offering $125 a week...
President Lee DuBridge of CalTech expects the shortage to get worse. One reason: last year's talk of a glut discouraged many would-be engineers from enrolling. "We miss those boys," says President DuBridge, "and we'll miss them much more as rearmament industries start crying for even more & more engineers...
Until World War II, most Americans thought that rockets were useful only for Fourth of July celebrations and trips to the moon. But not Dr. Theodore von Kármán, the cigar-smoking, eager boss of the famed Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory at CalTech. With Air Force and private funds, Dr. von Kármán had been experimenting enough with rockets to know they could be an important weapon. And since he was well acquainted with the work of the top Axis aerodynamicists, he knew what fast progress they were making with rockets. But when...
...Bottle. During the war, Aerojet turned out some $10 million worth of Jato units, became one of the biggest U.S. rocket manufacturers. As Aerojet began to rise, Von Kármán stepped down from the presidency, became the company's chief research consultant. CalTech's imaginative physicist Dr. Fritz Zwicky became active, research chief...
...arrested a mild-mannered, chess-playing, Russian-born physicist named Sidney Weinbaum, 52. He was charged with committing perjury and fraud in concealing his past membership in the Communist Party in filling out job questionnaires. A wartime theoretical physicist at Bendix Aviation, he became a senior research engineer in CalTech's jet-propulsion laboratory in 1946, has had only a research fellow's job at CalTech since 1949, when Army Intelligence withdrew his clearance to do confidential work. The FBI did not link him to Spy Courier Gold, or to espionage...