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Newest method of distributing gasoline-and great current boon to the steel industry-is cross-country piping.* Last week a new Great Lakes Pipe Line Co. (jointly formed by Barnsdall Corp. and Continental Oil Co.) announced it would build a 1,400-mi. line with capacity of 30,000 bbl. daily to connect Barnsdall and Continental refineries in Oklahoma with Des Moines. From Des Moines a four-inch pipe will run through Iowa and Nebraska to Minneapolis and St. Paul. A six-inch line will join Des Moines and Chicago. Another four-inch line will run from Chicago to Milwaukee...
Heretofore research work in the Business School (founded 1908) has relied on private donations from Harvardmen and great concerns, has had no formulated and well-defined financial organization. Even so it has been a boon to U. S. business, as attested to by the adoption of its case & problem method in business administration schools throughout the land and abroad...
...Thus the most idle vagaries, nuclei for many a major opus, may be preserved. Added feature is a portable keyboard superimposed on the piano keyboard (baby grand or upright) which mechanically and instantaneously transposes music into any desired key. Composing and transposing devices may be used together. A great boon should "Music Writer" be to the cinema industry. Heretofore composition for synchronized cinema has been a labor of weeks. With "Music Writer," two or three pianists may view a cinema in projection; each record silently (the device is demountable) his improvised score for a film, transpose it to paper...
...1919? some 5,000 people were arrested and 263 deported. Such action today would mean a staggering loss to Business?cancellation of Soviet contracts by the tens of millions. However, not all Congressmen are businessmen. Some think that to stamp out U. S. Communism now would be a national boon, cheap at any price...
...proceeded by an abbreviated period of the most intensive cramming is unfair to the undergraduate, perhaps ungifted with a glib pen, who has worked steadily throughout the year and can be said to possess a comprehensive and appreciative knowledge of his subject. The final examination is, too, a boon to the man who makes a desperate last minute effort, attended by a visit to the tutoring schools, to cover the work sufficiently for a passing mark. It is too easily done...