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The article focuses on U.S. National Bureau of Standards (NBS), a Department of Commerce division and main research laboratory for physical science and engineering, which was established by Congress in 1901. It mentions that military-related research works of NBS led to the development of panoramic x-ray machine and ballistocardiographic jerkmeter. It adds that NBS in collaboration with the paper industry developed a method for making paper using glass fiber without any adhesives and binders.

The article focuses on Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California, which is preparing to begin its second school year in September 1958. It states that the college has 118 students, 17 faculty members, and a half-built campus. It says that this year, the 43 students of the college will write research papers on nonscientific topics. It adds that the school's membership in the Associated Colleges in Claremont, Los Angeles County has helped assure potential students of the college's solidity.

The article offers information on the aircraft graphic visualizing illustration in the U.S. aircraft industry. It states that the method offers benefits to the industry as it accelerates the engineering processes, production, servicing, purchasing, and sales. It accounts the adoption of the method by Fleetwings Inc. In addition, Curtiss-Wright Corp. together with Craftint Manufacturing Co. unite in the development on the production of graphic illustrations called "Doubletone" drawing paper.

The article presents information on several events and conferences to be held during the year 1970. ACM Symposium on Compiler Optimization is scheduled from July 27-28, 1979 at the University of Illinois in Urbana. The First Annual Symposium on Computer Installation Management will be held on August 12, 1970 at the National Bureau of Standards in Washington D.C. The Conference on Computers in Undergraduate Science Education will be held from August 17-21, 1970 at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. Symposium on the Application of Computers to the Problems of Urban Society will be held on August 31, 1970 at the New York Hilton Hotel in New York City. The Symposium on Feature Extraction and Selection in Pattern Recognition is scheduled from October 5-7, 1970 at the Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne. The 14th Annual Human Factors Society Convention is scheduled from October 13-16, 1970 at Jack Tar Hotel in San Francisco. The International Symposium on Digital Computer Applications in the Engineering Sciences will be held from October 11-17, 1970 at the Technical University of Istanbul.

This section offers world news briefs related to the war. Great Britain has started the publication, "Britanskaya Chronica" or "The British Chronicle," in Russia. Engineers from the U.S. and Great Britain have completed a new pipeline in India. The U.S. Office of Economic Warfare (OEW) has revalidated licenses to Argentina.

In this article the author comments on the U.S. Army Engineers planning, which according to the author, if succeeds, will despoil the incomparable lake front of Chicago while wrapping the strangling tentacles of the railroads about the throat of potential water-borne commerce between the Middle West and the Atlantic seaboard. The building of the proposed filtration plant on some 61 filled-in acres of land in the heart of Chicago Harbor indisputably would seriously and adversely affect the commerce that the construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway would bring to all of the cities that border on the Great Lakes and the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers.

The article focuses on various books. Some of the books are: "Religion and Science As Allies," by J.T. Bixby; "Great Words From Great Americans"; "Manual of Machine Construction for Engineers," by J. Richards; "Manual of Industrial and Commercial Intercourse Between the United States and Spanish America," by T. Savage; "The Modern Chess Instructor," by W. Steinitz; and "Systematic Technology," by A.H. Strong.

The article offers information on simplified drafting. It mentions that simplified drafting is a streamlined method of engineering drawing that saves time, drudgery, and money. It notes that the method has been used in the U.S. by 25 % of the companies including American Machine & Foundry Co., General Electric Co. and the U.S. Bureau of Ships.

The article features U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Erwin Wilson. He worked as president of the General Motors Corp. prior to his government position in 1953. In the author's view, Wilson was distinct from his predecessors because he adopted the large-scale management and the strategies of the automobile industry in Detroit, Michigan to the Defense Department. Actions taken by Wilson to address administrative weaknesses in the agency are stated. Also noted is the need for Wilson to understand standards and judgments to guide the defense effort.

The article focuses on the Ford family and their automobile manufacturing company. Henry Ford started the age of mass production and created an empire motivated by his goal to provide cars for the masses. By the end of the World War II, Ford left his company to his sons, Henry, Ben and Billy. According to the article, the brothers inherited an empire that was on the brink of collapse, with its share of U.S. automobile sales dropping from 40 percent in 1930 to 21 percent in the first postwar year of car production.

The article deals with the improving economic state of Canada which can threaten the financial performance of the U.S. in 1952. The increasing value of the Canadian dollar was a symbol of the country's growing strength. It states that in order to enhance its financial state, the country has undergone the most impressive industrial development of any nation in the world. It also features Clarence Decatur Howe, Canada's Minister of Trade & Commerce and Minister of Defense Production, who is claimed to have contributed most to the state's progress.

The article focuses on the growth of Ephrata, Washington as a new frontier for settlers. According to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, the growth of Ephrata is an evidence of what new machines, methods and concepts can do for desert country. The earlier projects of the bureau were dams that watered lands for agricultural productivity. Other new projects are water exchanges and water exports. A complex system of dams, reservoirs, pumps and tunnels was built by the Bureau of Reclamation to lead part of the upper Colorado through the Rockies.

The article offers information on the second generation space travel of astronauts Edward Higgins White II and Pilot James Alton McDivitt using the Gemini 4 project in the U.S. It explains that the two-man Gemini capsule is the old Mercury capsule wherein astronauts can change their plans and improvise at short notice. Also mentioned is the dress rehearsal of astronauts before the date of the flight of space travel.

The article profiles Missouri Senator Stuart Symington who plans to run for president in the 1960 Democratic nominations in the U.S. It mentions that Symington was born in Amherst, Massachusetts and raised in Baltimore, Maryland wherein he practiced law. It states that Symington has a high-level administrative experience in the Federal Government who has a high chance of winning the presidential nominations.

This article focuses on the northerners and southerners in the United States. Anyhow, today, any Northerner or any Southerner who is sensitive to his surroundings, who has in short not lost his compass, would be insulted by the phrase. Indeed, far from ignoring sectional differences, the author incline to think such persons readily exaggerate them. Since the nation has found out what engineers can do in a white house and since even the little children in the streets have taken to kidding Santa Claus, we have as a nation few great creative myths comparable to the picture the North has of the South and the picture the South has of the North.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues including "Business-eye view of the egghead" in the January 27, 1962 issue, "Lift for ailing 'copter lines" in the January 20, 1962 issue, and "Why the White House worries" in the January 27, 1962 issue.

The article reports on the dedication of a laboratory building for the U.S. Public Health Service called Robert A. Taft Sanitary Engineering Center by Secretary Oveta Gulf Hobby in Cincinnati, Ohio in April 1954. Since 1913, the city is known as a center for public-health studies. Contamination of water and food by viruses and fungi, synthetic chemicals and radioactivity will be the focus of the center under research director Doctor Leslie A. Chambers. Other waste problems facing sanity engineers are cited.

Comments on the possibilities of technical progress in an era of capitalism in the U.S. Views of the optimists and pessimists about the possibilities; Subordination of the technical personnel to the business staff; Brilliance of the financial history of the United States Steel Corp.; Forecast of the president of the Carnegie Institute of Technology on the future of engineering profession; Proposal to readjust the technical education.

The article reports on business developments in the U.S. for the week of June 1, 1932. Figures published in "Iron Age" magazine show that steel industry activity has been fluctuating, with operations estimated to be running at 24 percent capacity. Orders have been received by U.S. companies for trucks, tractors and steel pipe from Near East Development Co. to be used in the oil region in Iraq. Heavy construction awards in the U.S. increased during the first four weeks of May 1932 according to figures from "Engineering News-Record."

The article profiles several U.S. scientists, who, it says, prove why the country's scientific resources are basically promising and sound. It says that Luis Walter Alvarez has been dubbed the "prize wild-idea man," with some prized ideas include isolation of tritium, discovery of helium 3, and a nuclear reaction method without uranium or million-degree heat. Meanwhile, Richard Phillips Feynman won the 1954 Albert Einstein Award for his Feynman diagrams.

This article presents a brief information on the book "Brainstorming," by Charles H. Clark and "Brainpower Quest," edited by Andrew A. Freeman. The two books listed above, in its own way, leads to a discussion of the situation of the individual mind in a highly organized society, particularly by the first, which is surely one of the plums of the publishing season. "Brainpower Quest," is the edited transcript of a centennial convocation, held at Cooper Union on the theme of developing adequate engineering and scientific brainpower in the U.S. of the future, and it includes the thoughtful comments of some of the topnotch scientists, engineers and administrators.

The article focuses on the terms and conditions of the negotiated plea of Spiro Agnew, the former U.S. Vice President, in the U.S. Elliot Richardson, an attorney general, has insisted the need of attaching the Government's case against the Vice President in the court record. Agnew has agreed with the conditions including the publicity of the case summary. However, Agnew did not admit the allegations stipulated in the document which damages the reputation of Agnew. The 40-page exposition was prepared by U.S. Attorney George Beal.

The article offers information on several issues related to industrial production in the U.S. As reported, it is expected that the shortage of engineers in steel, copper and nickel industries will increase manifold in 1960s. The advancement in technology is changing the nature of engineering and making it a less attractive profession.

The article reports on the importance of using technical terms or jargons in understanding the technological and scientific accomplishments of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). University of Michigan psychologist David McNeill expresses that the space metaphors are important addition to the language and approves limited inventions of words. Some of the terms are mentioned including "umbilical" "milk stool" and "rockoon."

The article features the three ballistic missile experts in the U.S. It states that Wernher von Braun is the director of the development operations division of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency at Huntsville, Alaska. It says that Wernher collaborates with U.S. Army Major General John Medaris in managing missile for the army. Moreover, it adds that they also worked with William H. Pickering, director of the Government-owned Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology.