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...motions required for a machining process on a tape that is hooked up to the machine. When the tape is played back, the machine faithfully repeats the original motions down to the last detail. The first such unit will go to the Giddings & Lewis Machine Tool Co. at Fond du Lac, Wis., where it will be used to turn out self-reinforced skins for jet planes...
...people know how much industry already contributes. In 1954 business will donate well over $60 million to private U.S. colleges, plus additional funds for research and equipment. Du Pont will parcel out more than $700,-ooo, most of it for chemistry students and research. Union Carbide has gone even further. It is planning a $500,000 program which will eventually provide 400 scholarships a year for more than 30 colleges to administer without strings of any kind...
...found no important correlation between their progress and lack of monopolistic restraint, as traditional theorists assumed there would have to be. The moral, said MacLaurin, is that trustbusters should take into account the creative contribution to the economy of a company's research (i.e., the argument Du Pont used to persuade a federal court to dismiss an antitrust suit against it on Cellophane [TIME, Dec. 21]) as an offsetting factor in the definition of monopoly...
...McClellan as observer and war artist. He spent almost a year with the Army of the Potomac, followed the Union forces from barracks to field, went with them through the Peninsular Campaign. These experiences produced a brief but scholarly military report, Campagne de I'Armée du Potomac, published in 1862. A more impressive record was the prince's watercolors of life among McClellan's soldiers; everywhere De Joinville went he carried his paint brush and color...
Individuals are honored by KFDR (Franklin D. Roosevelt), WEVD (Socialist Eugene V. Debs), WABD (Inventor Alien B. Du Mont) and WRGB (Dr. W.R.G. Baker of General Electric). Some stations go in for slogans: the Chicago Tribune has long called itself the "World's Greatest Newspaper," and its radio station is consequently labeled WGN; station WIOD in Miami symbolizes "Wonderful Isle of Dreams," and Atlanta's WSB means "Welcome South, Brother." Other appropriate call letters: the coyote howl of KIYI for Shelby, Mont.; KENO for gambling-mad Las Vegas, and KAVE for New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns...