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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Texas' founding fathers picked Austin for the State capital because of its natural beauty, perched on bluffs above the Colorado River. The State Capitol of pink Texas granite, biggest in the U. S., was built by Chicago capitalists, paid for with 3,000,000 acres of public land which later produced oil, are now worth about $60,-000,000. University of Texas at Austin (enrollment: 7,000) scraped along on its 2,000,000-acre endowment until oil was struck in 1923, since when it has become the richest and one of the best state universities in the land...
Finally Punch printed a cartoon, sensational in England, elfinly recalling that while efforts were being made to get the Queen Mary down the river on which she was built and out to sea, she became stuck at both ends (TIME, April 6). Punch, showing a canal barge in the same predicament, had its helmsman cry to the barge captain: "Don't forget, Cap'n, the same thing happened to the Queen Mary...
Braman Gibbs and Frank Owen smashed out hits off rattled pitcher Norton to score three runs. From this point on the visitors' pitching and fielding faded sadly, while the Crimson gradually built up and protected a large lead, aided by defensive gems by infielders Owen, Bilodeau, and Adzigian...
...estimated that U. S. amateurs have built about 10,000 telescopes, have organized some 50 clubs. The Pittsburgh club, formed as a branch of the Academy of Arts and Sciences, has a typical membership: engineers, doctors, dentists, lawyers, a bishop, two nuns...
Biggest amateur telescope is the 22-incher built by George Tauchmann of Berkeley, Calif. Twelve amateurs from California to Massachusetts have built 12-in. instruments, powerful enough to magnify the craters of the moon 500 or 600 times, to make visible the fifth satellite of Jupiter...