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Last week, the answer to whether salmon would use their Bonneville facilities finally became known. It was Yes. During April, Bonneville's fish census-takers grew increasingly nervous. Only a small number of salmon went by each day. Last week the fishways looked like a subway in a rush hour. This year's run was smaller than usual but an average of 1,600 salmon a day were using the ladders and there was no indication that fish had difficulty finding their way. Since the number of salmon who used to go up the river to spawn...
Born. To Eleanor King Birrell, Manhattan actress who played lead in The Birth of a Baby (TIME, April 4, et seg.) and Lowell M. Birrell; their first child, a son; in Manhattan...
Open their season on April 30, the Varsity 150-pounders made an impressive debut by coming from behind to beat the M. L. T. lightweights in 7:15 time on the Charles over the mile and five-sixteenths Henley distance...
...ultimatum would have attracted no attention. But oil is the only important U. S. business which in the last year has withstood Depression, and producers felt it was too good to last. More important still-despite increasing demand, proration figures have unquestionably been too high. The Petroleum Institute in April stated that 2,600,000 barrels a day (except for California, which has no proration laws) would be about right. The States east of California have actually been producing almost 2,700,000 barrels. As a result, refineries have built up immense inventories- 92,000,000 barrels of gasoline...
Meanwhile, followers of the Dow Theory watched their charts to see whether the Dow-Jones industrial average would go above its April 16 high of 121 thus-in theorists' jargon-confirming the action of the railroad average (which passed its April high) and indicating an intermediate upswing. Brokerage boardrooms fluttered with rumors that Robert Rhea of Colorado Springs, best-known interpreter of The Theory, had said upward breaking of 121 would definitely mark the end of the bear market. This was denied by High Priest Rhea. At any rate, industrials closed the week still below 121. And there...