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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gretna, a rocky knoll in a remote corner of the reservation which authorities plan to make into a desert without a bush or tree to hide escaping inmates. Most spectacular feature of the prison will be circular walls which will make it look like a fortress, be cheaper to build, more efficient and stronger than straight walls...
...gives the National Institute of Health, which Dr. Thompson heads, $750,000 to build a laboratory in which the many-sided cancer problem may be studied, and $700,000 for a year's expenses. Gloated Dr. Thompson: "This is the equivalent of the income from...
...Suez Canal zone and British bombing planes have the right to operate freely over any part of Egypt-with Egyptian bombing planes given for the first time the privilege of operating freely over England.* The British Navy retains its permanent base at Alexandria, pays rent. But Egyptians agree to build and pay for an entire system of strategic highways fanning out from Suez, so that in a few hours British motorized land forces can speed to any part of Egypt. Only after these roads have been completed does Britain agree to withdraw her present garrisons in Egypt, although Article...
Brothers, with enrollment booming along with football receipts, sold their Oakland site for $750,000 and borrowed $1,500,000 on a bond issue to build a handsome new plant in the Moraga Valley. In 1934, with $1,370,500 of the bonds still outstanding, the Brothers stopped paying interest and have paid none since. When the bondholders' committee, formed under the chairmanship of Frederic F. Janney of Dean, Witter & Co. which floated the issue, installed their own Comptroller James Everett Butler to supervise the college accounts, he found that St. Mary's was running...
Favorite for the title was a onetime Michigan lifeguard, Russell Hoogerhyde, 31, who, after winning in 1930, 1931, 1932 and 1934, retired to build up a profitable Chicago business in what true toxophilites call their "tackle." Hoogerhyde's proficiency with a bow & arrow really started in 1929 when he decided his form was bad. He shot 1,000 arrows a day for six months while slowly changing his arrow "anchor" grip from just behind his ear to under his jaw. Last week Hoogerhyde's rivals on the firing line were archers like Dr. Robert P. Elmer, the Wayne...