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When Bernard Baruch and his committee-Presidents Conant of Harvard, Compton of M.I.T.-estimated last summer that the country must have 1,037,000 long tons of synthetic rubber a year to get by,* that sounded to the public like the final word. But last week the U.S. learned that it was going to have to get by with a lot less - and like it. From Economic Stabilizer Jimmy Byrnes came an order to blunt Bill Jeffers: as Rubber Director he could have top priorities on only enough key equipment to procure 425,000 tons of synthetic this year. That...
Dean Hanford was also in the group, as were Professor Julian L. Coolidge '95, former master of Lowell House; Karl T. Compton president of M. I. T.; William H. Claflin '15, treasurer of the College; and Arthur D. Nock, acting chairman of the Society of Fellows...
Also representing the College as pall bearers are Dean Hanford, Julian L. Coolidge '95, former master of Lowell House, William H. Claflin '15, treasurer of the College, and Arthur D. Nock, acting chairman of the Society of Fellows. The final name on the list is that of Karl T. Compton, President of M.I.T...
...Arthur Holly Compton (1927), keen, handsome successor to Millikan at the University of Chicago, who first showed experimentally that light is composed of discrete particles as well as waves; better known now for his study of cosmic rays...
...Clinton Joseph Davisson (1937), thin, soft-spoken electrophysicist at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York, who first showed (complementing Compton) that electrons are not purely particles but have properties of very short waves...