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Volume 47 Issue 19 [PDF] Cornell Alumni News Volume 4J', Number 19 April 1, 1945 Price 20 Cents London ;:i; :.V WHY A BATTLE WAGON WEARS 4,000 SAPPHIRES THE DELICATE PRECISION instruments so essential to the by industry to combat wear in precision gauges, cutting navigation of ships of the sea —and ships of the air —are tools, thread guides for textile mills, barometers, com- dependent for accuracy on jewel bearings. There are passes, and watches. Phonograph needles that last in- 4,000 of them in a battleship. definitely are another interesting use. Before the war, synthetic sapphire for these bearings American synthetic sapphire production indeed is a came from abroad. Today, because of concentrated ef- tribute to American ingenuity, and promises much for forts over the past 36 months by THE LINDE AIR PROD- the Nation's postwar progress. UCTS COMPANY, a Unit of UCC, America need never • again depend upon an outside source for this hard, For additional information send for the folder P-4 "Synthetic Sapphire Production.'* smooth, wear-resistant material. This unusual UCC research project led to the quan- These objects are Linde sapphire and Linde ruby in boule and rod tity production of Linde sapphire and Linde ruby. form—materials of vital impor- These are produced in the form of a single crystal tance in military and industrial use. Because they are single crys- shaped like a cylinder—known as a boule (pronounced tals that are second only to the diamond in hardness—and can "bool") —and also in the form of rods of varying sizes, be given a surface that is per- for more efficient and economical fabrication. fectly smooth—they are invalu- able in bearings and in countlesj In addition to its indispensability in bearings for mil- other parts where there is wear. itary instruments, Linde sapphire already is being used BUY UNITED STATES WAR BONDS AND STAMPS UNION CARBIDE AND CARBON CORPORATION 30 East 42nd Street EH3 New York 17, N. Y. 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In is to serve human needs—to enable addition to the purchase of Government securities, policyholders through co-operative The Equitable made diversified investments in cor- action to achieve security to a degree porate securities in 1944 at an average yield of 3.51%. that would not be possible through Life insurance is serving well in the war. It has individual effort alone. extended and enlarged its protection of the American Family. It has helped those in distress. It has encour- The Equitable during the past year continued to aged thrift and combated inflation. It has contributed grow in usefulness to the American public and to the greatly to the financing of the war. war economy of the nation. A total of $609,026,000 of new Equitable life insurance was purchased in In the peacetime future of our country, life insur- 1944. This volume is a tribute to the foresight and ance will be an equally dynamic factor. While con- patriotism of a large proportion of the American tinuing as a bulwark of family security, its investment people, who are refraining from spending their money funds will help industry speed reconversion and ex- needlessly and instead are putting it aside for the future. pand production, thereby providing jobs. It is likewise a tribute to the work of Equitable Life insurance investment funds have played an agents in carrying the story of life insurance and its important role in the development of America. What benefits to the public. Most people, even though they life insurance has done in the past to aid the national realize their need for the protection that life insurance economy, it will do on an even vaster scale and with provides, tend to defer its purchase and must be per- larger inspiration in the America of tomorrow. suaded to do that which will mean much to their welfare and happiness. The aggregate of Equitable protection at the year- PRESIDENT end was $8,897,754,000—a record. Benefit payments to policyholders and their families averaged $26,000 an hour throughout the past year, THlSί a total of $230,992,000. "V. The increase in dividend rates on most types of policies, put into effect last year, is being continued FREE BOOKLET for 1945, thus maintaining the low net cost of Equitable —with real-life pictures protection. An aggregate of $43,801,000 is scheduled and examples. Helpsyou arrange your own life ^Ϊ for distribution to policyholders as dividends during insurance to get the |||f 1945. greatest values. No iC7* obligation. Fill in ^%S The Equitable continued to grow in financial coupon today and send to 393 Seventh strength during 1944, assets increasing $318,329,000, Avenue, New York 1, N. Y. a larger gain than in any previous year. Total assets are $3,507,983,000. Nan Holdings of United States Government obligations Address- have increased to $1,568,317,000, representing policy- City and State_ *A Mutual Company Incorporated under the Laws of New York State PRIVATE ENTERPRISE—(continued) New York's First Bank Personal Trusts Established 1784 Since 1830 "Only by inattention or blindness..." "If we all work for the state, if the only real avenue to satisfaction and advancement is polit- ical, there can be no real control over those in power. "The most fruitful economy that the world has ever seen has not lost the springs of vitality, nor is it ready for the paralyzing blueprint of the official. We Americans do not love monopoly, and only by inattention or blindness would we turn over our beloved country into the greatest of all monopolies—the super-state.55 -ARTHUR A. BALLANTINE, former Undersecretary of the U.S. Treasury. From a letter printed in The New York Times Feb. 25, 1945. BANK OF NEW YORK 48 Wall Street—New York I5 UPTOWN OFFICE: MADISON AVENUE AT 63RD STREET Commercial Banking Executor and Trustee Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Volume 47, Number 19 April 1, 1945 Price, 20 Cents CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS Subscription price $4 a year. Entered as second class matter, Ithaca, N.Y. Published the first and fifteenth of every month. and burn it down, lice and all." Later, CornelΓs Educational Pioneers Professor Liberty Hyde Bailey added his inspirational examples. Rice never James E. Rice '90 forgot how Bailey was so interested in his teaching that he often walked into BY EARL W. BENJAMIN Ίl the classroom starting his lecture be- fore he could close the door. This continues our series on the cooperation is the greatest force in pioneers who have blazed new Itrails When Professor Bailey became the material world." A few years ago, Dean of the College of Agriculture in in education at Cornell. Articles have I asked him to autograph his photo- 1903, he asked Rice to come back to appeared on President Andrew D. graph for my office. What did he White, Robert H. Thurston, Liberty Cornell as assistant professor of Poul- write? "The ability to cooperate is Hyde Bailey, James Law, and Edward try Husbandry, the first position of our best measuring stick, James E. L. Nichols '92. Others will be pub- that title to be established anywhere. Rice." lished in forthcoming issues. Rice accepted, and later being pro- Earl W. Benjamin was a student and colleague of Professor Rice for fifteen First Poultry Teacher moted to full professorship, remained years. Since 1922 when he resigned as While still an undergraduate, Rice until he became professor emeritus, professor of Poultry Husbandry at Cor- started writing for several agricul- July 1, 1934. During these three dec- nell, he has been successfully putting tural papers in the course of which he ades, members of the poultry staff to business use the principles and prac- reported the proceedings of the first were increased from two to more than tices in which Rice has been a leader. Farmers' Institute ever held in New thirty, with a corresponding increase Benjamin received the BSA in 1911 York State. During this time he made in the number of students taught and and stayed in the Graduate School and his first address, a talk on "The De- activities carried on. A $90,000 build- as instructor in Poultry Husbandry, re- velopment of the Egg" before the ceiving the MS in 1912 and the PhD in ing (later named Rice Hall), and aux- 1914. He was appointed assistant pro- Agricultural Association of which he iliary buildings were erected for the fessor in 1914, professor in 1920. For was president. At his own expense, he Poultry Department. thirteen years, his office has been in carried on the first poultry feeding It is significant that of men and wo- New York City, first as general man- experiments in any American college, men studying under Professor Rice's ager and treasurer of Pacific Egg Pro- in the third story of the old Red Barn. direction, at least twenty-eight have ducers* Cooperative, Inc., a marketing Upon graduation, Rice accepted Dean become heads of poultry departments agency for eggs from West Coast poul- Roberts's offer to remain one year as of colleges and experiment stations in trymen's cooperatives, and latterly as his assistant.
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