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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...complication; most of the Scanlon plants are small--averaging perhaps 500 workers. (Seanlon, however, has installed the plan in a Canadian steel plant of 5,000, and is at the moment experimenting in a subsidiary plant of a large corporation). But in spite of the limitations, the 40-odd companies in which the plan has been introduced represent a very wide variety of enterprises...
Five Borders. Pakistan's claimed 80-odd million population, fifth largest in the world, is split between two land areas at opposite sides of the subcontinent (see map): crowded, fertile East Pakistan, about the size of Wisconsin, and West Pakistan, somewhat larger than Texas. The double territory gives Pakistan five borders to protect, has meant a fabulous expenditure for defense. Almost every sign of backwardness in Pakistan-poor housing, lack of schools-is blamed on the high cost of the army...
...year-old Professor Barney K. Baker started off for his office each morning and started home each night. He was a stooped and moody man who day after day did much the same thing, and year after year gave much the same psychology lectures. Students thought him an odd-sort, difficult to approach, and no man for after-class discussions. In all his 24 years on the campus, he had never made a close friend...
...million a year. Allison, who had only counted on $5 million, thought his gross might hit $20 million by the time the rest of Northgate is in full swing. By midsummer Northgate's five-block long, 48-ft.-wide "Miracle Mall" will be lined with 70-odd shops, a 1,468-seat theater and a four-story office building. Among the shops: J. J. Newberry, Firestone tires, and a C. & H. supermarket, the biggest in the state of Washington...
English A themes, term papers, Ph.D. theses, and literary manuscripts keep Harvard Square a beehive of professional typists. Students and professors pass scribbled first drafts and mandatory deadlines to five typing agencies, the largess of the dozen odd agencies in Cambridge...