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Factory. Each ton of soybeans yields 30 gal. of oil and 1,600 lb. of meal. Industry takes the oil and the meal, uses one or both to make glue, paints, combs, candles, radios, buttons, axlegrease, paper size, explosives, linoleum, oilcloth, printer's ink, billiard balls, rubber substitutes, cigaret holders, Christmas tree ornaments...
...some of the more important consequences of the recent changes in the social and academic life at Harvard College. Other accomplishments, equally important, might be mentioned, but there still remains much to be done, Consider, for example, the House Plan. The Houses, equipped with ample libraries, comfortable common rooms, billiard rooms, squash courts, and music rooms, to say nothing of the dining halls which offer the most valuable means of acquaintance, have been of great value in giving purpose to the undergraduate's scholastic pursuits. He is now made to feel, by his very surroundings, that he is part...
...Expert billiard players, disgusted with ordinary billiards because it is so easy, have never ceased devising harder variations. Three-cushion billiards, in which the cue ball must touch three cushions before completing a carom, is the most difficult of all. As a swimmer, Lee specialized in long distance, won the U. S. championship five times. Because of his swimming prowess he was asked to join the New York Athletic Club in 1925. When he took to utilizing the club's billiard tables, it naturally occurred to him to learn the game the longest, hardest...
...finance division of the Army, later married a blonde girl named Gudrun Andersen, daughter of a Yukon prospector. They moved to Breckenridge, Tex., the heart of a contemporary oil boom. The night they arrived there was a little shooting and three corpses were laid out on a billiard table in one of the town's play parlors. Emil Hurja started the Breckenridge American. All his life he had been familiar with mining in Michigan, Montana and Alaska. Oil drilling was a kindred occupation and in a few years his paper gained considerable reputation in mining and oil circles...
Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., whose father died in 1932 leaving $2,297,000, went from M. I. T. to Hyatt Roller Bearing Co., in which the Senior Sloan had a large interest. His first job had to do with manufacturing billiard balls, then an important Hyatt product. With the development of automobile roller bearings which supplanted billiard balls, the small, struggling Hyatt became large & rich. In 1916 Hyatt was taken over by William Crapo Durant, whose General Motors dream included motorcar accessories as well as motorcars. In 1920 Mr. Durant was out of General Motors, the du Ponts were...