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Everybody's doing it. Harvard plans to abolish the free elective system. Colgate has rebuilt its curriculum around a "core" of seven required courses. In Yale's "Experimental Program," students take prescribed courses for the first two years. The postwar educational models differ somewhat in chromium extras, but in one way all are alike: students will have less chance at the wheel than their immediate predecessors...
Slip of the Hand. But when Perc and his brothers branched out into the beauty business in 1933, in a pink-brocaded, chromium and black-glass salon on Sunset Boulevard, their, hand slipped. None had any business sense. The House of Westmore almost folded before they hired a businessman, S. Willard Isaacs, former owner of a local beauty-shop chain, to run it. He still runs the House of Westmore. Last year it grossed $2,225,000 from the sale of Westmore products, $300,000 more from the salon, paid the brothers both salaries and handsome dividends...
...things in Japan would remind many U.S. soldiers of home. One is the climate-hot, muggy summers and bright, cold winters. Bars have chromium furniture, neon lights and Japanese-made "scotch." There are (or were) U.S.-style dance bands. In unbombed neighborhoods, the conquerors will see familiar trade names (sometimes slightly confused in pirating and copying, as "Interwomen" for Interwoven Socks). And, just as North America has its Indians, Japan has its aboriginal Ainus, a lightskinned, hairy people whose women tattoo blue mustaches on their lips...
Ever since, its engineers have poked into the earth's crust in search of deposits of vanadium, tungsten, chromium and other rare metals. In Peru it controls the world's largest vanadium deposits, and a leaching plant nearly three miles above sea level...
Lacking nickel for hardening steel in armor plate, they first substituted chromium and molybdenum alloys, then used thin sheets of steel bonded together, which require much less alloy for hardening than does a single thick plate. The analysis showed the Germans used their small supply of alloy metals again & again, by painstakingly sorting the scrap from their wrecked armor, according to its alloy content...