Chapter 172 A New Beginning
After leaving Orville's house, Evan went directly to Ladra Heights and informed Cliff of Robert Caldwell's attitude.
After receiving it, Cliff said that with Caldwell's support, the police force problem should not be solved very much.
Then Cliff couldn't wait to go to a banquet, where he would have a good chat with the Los Angeles Police Chief and settle some agreements he should have.
Of course, the so-called agreement is basically verbal and will not leave any words.
After Evan handled Robert Caldwell, who was also a Republican, Cliff was responsible for the rest of the public relations work.
On September 8th, the Handicraft Art High School will open.
On September 15, UCLA opened. Virginia stepped on the time point and ended the publicity campaign and returned to school from New York, thousands of miles away.
On September 18, Truman signed the National Security Act, which was established under the CIA and the U.S. Air Force. At the same time, the Department of the Army and the Navy were merged into the Department of Defense.
On September 22, California Polytechnic will start.
During the two weeks, newspapers such as the Los Angeles Times published in the Los Angeles area frequently reported on security cases in the Los Angeles area.
At the same time, citizens coming to protest on Springer Street outside the town hall.
All of these have put a lot of pressure on the city government and the city council.
The day before Caltech started, the city council passed a proposal to increase the police department’s budget and expand its staff.
Soon after, the Los Angeles Police Department held a bid for the police training base project, and the winners needless to say.
Before Evan returned to school to concentrate on studying and research, he assigned three tasks to Joe Wells. The first task was to expand the staff of the R&D department; the second task was to collect technical information related to the TV and negotiate with Dumont Laboratory to purchase cathode ray tubes; the third task was to investigate the application of magnetrons in heating and determine whether there were relevant patents. If there were any, if there were no one, of course, register them first.
After receiving these three tasks, Wells immediately understood that Evan planned to expand and the field he entered was obvious.
Wells complained about Evan's decision. He felt that Evan was anxious and should wait until the stew pot business stabilized before considering the new product. Being so anxious may not be a good thing for the company.
Moreover, the two newly launched projects, TV and microwave oven, have much higher technical requirements than stew pots. This is undoubtedly a test for the R&D department of the weak Applied Physical Systems Company, and there are many risks.
Evan noticed Wells' slight displeasure and talked openly with him. After Evan promised to provide sufficient financial support, Wells put away his dissatisfaction and devoted himself to the new work.
For these two new projects, Evan also assigned tasks to Carl, the real general manager of Applied Physics Systems.
Evan asked Wells to take charge of technology, and what Carl did was naturally to find money.
Applied Healthcare Company has not been short of money so far because of its capital injection from Johnson & Johnson. As for Applied Physics Systems Company, after investing $200,000, it borrowed some money from Magic Seven to build a factory. Although the product has been launched now, it is still in a deficit state.
Therefore, if an applied physics system company wants to develop new products, it can only find additional money.
Evan has already figured out the source of the money, that is the bank.
After confirming that you heard it correctly, Carl said: "Evan, you have figured it out. It's not impossible to get a loan, but it has a cost. With your current financial situation, it doesn't seem that you need to borrow money from the bank."
Carl said that if Evan wants to mobilize cash, he can mobilize a lot of it, part of it is in the alphabet company's account, Prince's hush fee, and part of it is the profit of Magic Seven.
But Evan did not intend to use the cash.
"Carl, I think clearly. Just do what I said."
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As the new semester begins, new people have arrived in the dormitory.
Evan had no plans to change dormitories and still lived in BlackerHouse. Orville is a graduate student and has moved out of the dormitory. The new chairman of BlackerHouse was elected at the end of the last semester. To Evan and not surprisingly, Rick was elected as the new chairman.
Rick was able to take over as the new chairman because his social skills were obvious to all, and because of his performance on truant day, he won the trust of many classmates.
After becoming the chairman, Rick still remembers the club and openly promotes the new student. Under his publicity, the "Planet Walker House" has become a well-known club among the new student.
A week later, the dormitory draws lots. Evan was already used to the single room, so with Rick's cooperation, he still won Room 111.
Just as freshmen began to suffer from the first year of hell difficulty course, Rick and Orville jointly held a club recruitment.
Most of the people who participated in the IQ test this time are freshmen, and there are still many people who joined the meeting after the test.
Among the newcomers who joined the club, many of them were playing the "Planet Walker House" card, which was considered to have found an organization in the school.
On the weekend of the second week of the new semester, Evan held two lectures in a row. One was facing the newcomer of the club, talking about the "parallel world theory" that was not published publicly, and the other was extremely formal, facing the popular science lectures of all students in the school, sponsored by Professor Watson. In this lecture, Evan talked about the progress of semiconductor research in solid state physics, focusing on the significance of transistor research.
This lecture attracted many students and teachers to listen to the lecture. Evan's lecture was not profound, and even non-physics people could understand it. The part about the future application of transistors was remembered by many people. After that, Evan truly became a celebrity in the entire California Technological Engineering. As long as you are in school, no matter where you go, someone would come forward to say hello to Evan. This kind of treatment does not regard Evan as a student.
But in fact, Evan still had to attend classes and hand in small papers. He chose a lot of classes, and the teacher did not lower his requirements. Moreover, because Evan is famous, the teachers like to communicate with him in class, so he was not good enough to skip classes casually because skipping classes was almost 100%.
In addition to class, Evan stayed the most time in the laboratory. The experiment of junction transistors has reached the most critical stage, and Evan has arrived almost every day.
After Evan's lecture, many senior students came to apply for internships, and Professor Watson stayed without leaving any of them.
Chapter completed!