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Table of Contents: What is in the Money Pit at Oak Island? p. 4 ; Several lives and at least one million dollars have been lost in an attempt to answer that question. Now Ross Wilhelm, associate professor of business economics at the Graduate School of Business Administration, has cracked the code written on the stone and thereby arrived at a plausible explanation for the 200 year old mystery. ; What Happens lo Workers When They Lose Their Jobs? p. 8 - When a 300 man paint factory in Detroit closed its doors, Alfred Slote was there to report how the employees of the plant reacted and adjusted to the loss of their jobs. His book, "Termination: The Closing al Baker Plant" is here reviewed by Edwin L. Miller, associate professor of industrial relations. ; The Man in the Middle Clots the Ulcer p. 10 - Dividend interviews Sidney Cobb, M.D., Program Director, Institute for Social Research, about the work being done on the relationship between jobs and health and the physiological effects of overload and stress. ; What Will the Next Ten Years Be Like? by George H. Brown The Director of the Bureau of the Census spoke at the Dean's Forum on implications of Census Bureau projections for the next ten years. ; Where Are They All Going to Live? p. 14 - by Karl G. Pearson, Demand for homes is going up, up, up. Here Karl Pearson. professor of business administration, discusses industrialized housing; its techniques, its advantages, and its potentialities for alleviating the housing shortage. ; Signs at the School p. 19 ; Among Ourselves p. 22 ; Links With Alurni p. 27 - by Herbert W. Hildebrandt, Our Director ot Alumni Relations writes on plans to develop the Business School Alumni Assotiation. ; About the Cover, Our cover is a picture of the Porta Wheel, a mechanical encoding and decoding device described in a book on cryptology published in 1503 by Giovanni Battisla Porta. For instructions on how to use it, see pages 6 and 7. The wheel was used by Associate Professor Ross Wilhehn to decipher the mysterious symbols found engraved on a rock in the "money pit" at Oak Island. The picture is taken directly from Porta's 400-year-old book which is in the rare book collection at the U-M. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/50699>
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Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Michigan
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Electronic reproduction; Ann Arbor Michigan; Michigan Copy Center; 2004
File Modified 2007-04, bookmarks 2007-04.
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