...opportunities-one from a univer- sity in Shanghai, China, that demanded a five-year contract, and the other from a hillbilly college in North Carolina that could offer...
The presence of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum was an important factor in Emlen's attraction to Madison. The last of the 1920s and early 1930s saw the beginnings of a significant new development in natural history at the University of Wisconsin.
...COMPANY ee J Spear sees China as - an important growth...market for metals tecycling firms inthe next 15-20 years.
The company purchases waste paper through a subsidiary sup- plier based in New York that buys office paper and magazine waste across the United States.
Its Broadway mill started recycling inthe1930s; the Day Street mill, inthe early 1990s.
Most of the foundries are in Wisconsin; steel mills are out-of-state in Indiana, farther east and in Canada.
OUTLOOK FOR THE FUTURE The degree of prosperity inthe slate industry depends primarily on the volume of residential construction. The shortage of housing that resulted first from the prolonged depression of the1930s, and intensified by the war conditions that followed, had...a leading national problem early in 1949-.
A great revival in slate sales is definitely in view; when it will materialize is problematical; but the strong'uptrend in resi- dential building early in 1946 is encouraging. The greatest handicap to increased slate production early in 1946 was manpower shortage.