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...large majority of the students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences apparently favor Dean Elder's recent proposal that an option be instituted on the length of the doctoral thesis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chance for Short Thesis Approved In Poll of GSAS | 3/12/1957 | See Source »

...half the $3.32 a ton it now costs to ship coal to Cleveland by rail. Although the pipe is a possible competitor of the railroads, three of them-the Pennsylvania, New York Central and Nickel Plate-allowed the pipeline to cross their right of ways in return for an option to buy 45% of the pipeline-operating company's stock. If the pipeline proves trouble-free when full-scale operation starts April 7, the industry expects it to be widely copied and the market for coal expanded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINING: Cost-Cutting in Coal | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...negotiation or construction in the U.S., and U.S. companies have announced plans for building seven more abroad. As if to support his stand, three more groups of private-power companies announced plans for U.S. reactors last week: A group of Northwest utilities, headed by Pacific Power & Light, took an option on 14 square miles near Yakima, Wash. as a possible reactor site. EURJ A group of ten Ohio Valley utilities, headed by American Gas & Electric Co., disclosed plans for a 13,000-kw. prototype plant and later on a 200,000-kw reactor. EUR| A group of California utilities proposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATOMIC ENERGY: Out of Power? | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...part series that marked the first time any Texas newspaper had ever published a searching, statewide report on the social effects of the state's alcoholic schizophrenia, the Houston Post (circ. 201,647) stirred the biggest uproar among dry voters and wet drinkers since Texas adopted its local option...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bootleg Report | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

Most of the students, who had been given the option by their schools either to attend the hearing or to go to classes, brought their own lunches so as not to lose their seats during the mid-day recess. They had to be restrained in their enthusiasm for their professors by Edward Besaulnier, chairman of the hearing...

Author: By James W.B. Benkard, | Title: Medical School Students Jam 'Pound' Bill Hearing | 1/30/1957 | See Source »

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