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...same time the Corporation elected four new members to the group. They are Sheldon Glueck, Roscoe Pound Professor of Law and an expert on juvenile delinquency; Dana M. Cotton, Director of Placement in the Graduate School of Education; Cora A. DuBois, Stone-Radcliffe Professor Anthropology; and Dana L. Farnsworth, Director of University Health Services. Dean Leighton, Dean Bender, and Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House, were all reappointed to the group...
Still more does U.S. prosperity depend on export markets. Four million Americans work directly for overseas customers. In 1952 U.S. foreign sales of earth-grading machinery were equal to 30% of production; tractors, 23%; textile machinery, 22%; typewriters, 19%; trucks and buses, 16%; refrigerators, 13%; cotton textiles, 9%. U.S. farmers exported the produce of 40 million acres of land-between one-quarter and one-half of all their cotton, tobacco, corn and wheat. About 30% of all U.S. farm marketings are dependent on foreign buyers, and in 1951 farm-export income, divided evenly among U.S. farmers, equaled...
...Named for Monroe D. Anderson, wealthy Houston cotton broker, who died in 1939 and left his fortune for "good works...
...game of the year. But U.C.L.A., having played in the Bowl last year, is ineligible, so Ohio State will go against Southern California, which has been beaten three times, including a 34-to-0 thrashing by U.C.L.A. Other scheduled bowl games: Sugar, Navy v. Mississippi; Orange, Duke v. Nebraska; Cotton, Arkansas v. Georgia Tech...
...people who lived in Barton Ramie's 350 thatch-roofed, plaster-floored houses apparently owned little besides their cotton loincloths. They tossed their refuse outside the houses, where it built up into thick kitchen middens; then they buried their dead in it. Dr. Willey found no evidence in Barton Ramie of the high intellectual or artistic life of the ancient Mayans. He thinks that the theocratic society of the Mayans was much like that of medieval Europe, where peasants lived in miserable villages around great cathedrals, and most of their substance was sucked up into the spires of lacy...