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...told the Civil Aeronautics Board that they could not make a go of it and were splitting up for good. But the bigger news of the announcement was what it told of the sick state of the independent air-freight business. Said Flying Tiger President Robert W. Prescott, who started his line in 1945: "We are through as far as this deal is concerned, and we're through as far as air freight is concerned. You can't fight the economic facts of life...
...mechanics' unions, the Tiger locals of the pilots' A.F.L. union and independent mechanics' union) demanded for men lopped off the payroll as a result of the merger. The deal ordered by CAB: a year's salary, or 60% of it for four years. Says Prescott: "We believed that if the volume of business held up there would be relatively few terminations, and those could be paid out of earnings...
...Manhattan last week a one-man Senate investigating committee spaded up some fresh dirt on postwar apartment projects backed by the Federal Housing Administration (TIME, July 26). Called to the stand by Connecticut's Republican Senator Prescott Bush was Lawyer Thomas Grace, who was New York State FHA director from...
...amoeba on his scale, Dr. Prescott waits until one of his stock has just divided into two new individuals. Working with a powerful microscope, he picks one of them up with a hairlike suction tube and delicately transfers it to a minute cup on top of the Cartesian diver. It cannot escape, but it thrives slimily on a broth of smaller protozoa. By measuring the pressure that will keep the underwater Cartesian diver on the zero line, Dr. Prescott can weigh his captive amoeba at all stages of growth. When the amoeba has doubled in weight, it generally divides into...
...Prescott is the first to weigh the growth of individual amoebas, but he is not tending his microscopic livestock as a mere stunt. He has already discovered something new: that amoebas generally grow for about 20 hours. Then for the next four hours before they divide, their weight does not increase. This scrap of information, gathered so laboriously, is considered important in the study of cellular growth, including the growth of cancer cells in the human body...