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Canned staples form one great division of University food purchase. Annually, in the past it has been the spring, wholesalers are asked to send samples to the University. These samples are then tested for compliance with government regulations and for compliance with their advertised quality. A common subterfuge is to...
Last week Paul McNutt took his most drastic step to date in ordering some 600,000 workers in 34 categories in the Detroit area "frozen" in their jobs. The order does not force any person to stay at his present job, does make him provide good & ample reasons for wanting...
> U.S. ersatz materials are often better than the products they replace. Samples exhibited at Chicago's National Chemical Exposition: an Army raincoat that weighs 1½ Ib. less than the old model, saves 1¾ Ib. of rubber; plastic buttons for uniforms; synthetic bristles, tetered like natural hog hairs...
Strange objections to the Rockefeller Foundation were reported from the jungles of Colombia last week. Foundation doctors, on the trail of yellow fever, had an inexplicably hard time persuading a chief of the Goajiras Indians to permit blood tests on his tribe. Finally the chief agreed to send two tribesmen...
> A percher (textile for inspector) is getting hard to find and it took a month to train a new man to spot all the possible defects in cloth as it comes off the looms. Dooley and Dietz bet they could reduce the month to half a day. They had the...