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Lawrence Hanley who is one of a band of scholars roaming the rural U. S. to note and map its regional dialects before they become obsolete. In about ten years the U. S. will have a complete Linguistic Atlas. Workers are still occupied with New England, where the Atlas was begun two years ago (TIME, Aug. 31, 1931). Professor Hanley got his cowthumpiana by personal interview, from 262 sources. Naturally cowthumping is more prevalent in rural districts than in urban centres. Yet sophisticated residents of Danbury, Conn. might be surprised to hear that a Danbury woman said: "They started...
...calling her the greatest living woman scientist and one of the foremost scientists of all time; the National Academy of Sciences making her its first woman member; Pictorial Review giving her $5,000 for "achievement." Her importance lies with her studies in anatomy and pathology. She has made an atlas of the medulla and midbrain. She has delved to the origin and processes of the lymphatic system, the physiology of blood vessels, the origin of blood cells. Lately her work has been what she calls "an intensive study of the blood as related to the whole pathology of tuberculosis...
Meantime Floyd Bostwick Odium, master of Atlas Corporation, had been going around picking up second-hand investment trusts. Atlas' holdings of Blue Ridge were listed on Dec. 31 as only 92,215 shares, of Shenandoah only 19,471, but Mr. Odium must have picked up more off the record, for last week he turned up with control...
...beauties of the South passed from Mr. Williams to Mr. Odium, becoming incidentally the 20th and 21st investment trusts that Atlas has picked up. The list began with 1) Widlaw, Inc., February 1930; 2) All America General Corp., June 1930; 3) Allied Atlas Corp. (formerly Exide Securities Corp.), August 1930; 4) Power & Light Securities Trust, March 1931', 5) Selected Stocks, Inc., March 1931; 6) Ungerleider Financial Corp., April 1931; 7) Iroquois Share Corp., May 1931; 8) General Empire Corp., June 1931; 9) Jackson & Curtis Investment Associates. July 1931; 10) Sterling Securities Corp., July 1931; 11) Securities-Allied Corp. (formerly...
...this simple process President Odium was indirectly acquiring the underlying securities at a big discount from their market value. Last week he revealed how well he had bought. While the stock-market as a whole had declined 75%, Atlas common stock in three years had increased 40% in asset value to $7.02 a share. With most of its holdings written down to market and the rest to $1. Atlas' reported total assets...