Word: calumet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Measuring these skills has been largely the work of two scientists-Ophthalmologist Hedwig Stieglitz Kuhn* of Hammond, Ind., and Dr. Joseph Tiffin, Purdue psychologist. For 20 years Dr. Kuhn has studied all sorts of eyes used and misused in the vast Calumet industrial region south of Chicago. Five years ago Dr. Tiffin began to correlate visual skills and job analysis. This week, as a result of their work, the optical firm of Bausch & Lomb announced that it was offering a new visual service to industry, using a new instrument, the Ortho-Rater...
Died. Maximilian Agassiz, 77, swank grandson of the famed 19th-Century naturalist Louis Agassiz and president of both Newport's Reading Room (stag) and Clambake Club (coed); after a ten-year illness; in Newport, R.I. His father, Harvard Savant Alexander Agassiz, helped develop Calumet & Hecla copper mines, left him a fortune out of which he paid many a newsboy's way through college...
...Toonerville Trolley as the music of Mozart is to that of Meyerbeer. Emett's railwaymen become involved in the most decided peculiarities of right-of-way (see cut}. One of Emett's railway carriages is blue with the exhalations of an American Indian sucking his calumet, a Chinese inhaling opium, an East Indian at his hookah and other assorted pipe addicts (the caption, in the mouths of two elderly ladies, is "Bother-it's a smoker!"). An Emett dining car, where rabbit is being served, affords, by virtue of a sharp curve in the track...
...final table: 35 pages listing dues and initiation receipts for every one of U.S.A.'s 1,800 locals (an almost exact mirror of new membership as well as of membership in good standing). Biggest dues contribution was $52,900 from local 1014 (Carnegie-Illinois) in the Calumet district; biggest initiation fee gain, $15,000 from local 2194 (Crucible Steel) in the New York City district...
First WPB moderated this anti-bigness policy, allowed Calumet & Hecla to charge 17? for whatever it could take out of an abandoned, high-cost pit. Last week WPB went further, let it be known that henceforth it will allow all the big companies to negotiate prices on a mine-by-mine basis, will give them a fighting chance to get in on a bonus by stepping up the output from individual shafts...