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Star Facts of Life. Astronomers, meeting at Radcliffe College, in Cambridge, discussed even vaster forces (not yet under human control). They told how stars are formed, over billions of years, out of cosmic...
...apartment? . . . Not only have we an ample supply of meat, but thousands of Canadians are donating meat coupons to the Canadian Meat Board to help feed the starving Europeans. . . . I have no wish to be smug, but surely if Canada can do it the U.S., with an even vaster supply of foodstuffs and materials, should be able...
...against the Sky. Against the vast arable U.S. earth and the vaster sky over it, one man might stand as an epitome of the task and the hopes which the hungry world has placed upon some six million U.S. farmers, the great mass of whom, like him, live between the Rocky and the Appalachian Mountains. He is Gustav Theodore Kuester (rhymes with Easter...
...head of the biggest U.S. corporation, Sloan has always been an apostle of bigness. He believes that a vast organization, with its money and talent, can make things better and cheaper than a small company. Under his direction, G.M., which had been vast when he moved in, became even vaster. But expansion was not hit or miss. Part of it was something new in the auto industry : a big staff to get all the facts on anything G.M. wanted to do, a bigger research laboratory, under famed Charles F. Kettering, to find out the best...
Many of the details will depend on where U.S. forces end up, what duties they will still have to perform. But the program was sufficiently set to indicate that it will be much vaster in size and scope than any ever established by a post-armistice army (the World War I program gave courses to 230,000, most of whom only attended lectures at their own posts). Included are four types of schools...