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...three-man Congressional investigating committee decided last week to make good come out of the tragedy of skylarking with the lives of other people. Oklahoma's Representative Jack Nichols, grimly determined to formulate a definite set of rules for military and commercial flying, subpoenaed airline executives for a special hearing. His colleague, California's Carl Hinshaw, said: "We must provide for the control of navigable air space, just as we now supervise the use of navigable waters...
...petition requesting Congress to strike out the amendment of the 18 and 19-year-old draft bill which stipulates that men under twenty serve a year of training prior to being shipped overseas was circulated in four House dining halls yesterday by a three-man committee...
Author of this plan was Harvard's President James Bryant Conant. President Conant and a fellow member of the three-man committee that had cleared up the rubber mess, M.I.T.'s President Karl Compton, joined in warning the nation that it could no longer delay clearing up its college manpower mess. Taking issue with Army men who had declared that all students were destined for the armed forces, they pointed to the urgent need for experts in war industry. Said President Compton: "My own experience with the scientific program of the Government and the technical problems...
...story is history-the story of the three-man crew of a Navy plane who were forced down in the Pacific and spent 34 days on a rubber raft (TIME, March...
...man who counts most in this transformation is Harvard's tall, razor-keen, 49-year-old President James Bryant Conant. Last week he was even busier than his university. In Washington he spent most of the week conferring with fellow members of Franklin Roosevelt's three-man committee investigating rubber. As chairman of the National Defense Research Committee, he helps direct U.S. scientists' search for new materials, new weapons...