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...Note--Below are some comments by a Yale undergraduate columnist on some of the current discussion on the House Plan at New Haven...
...bottle, from one-tenth ounce perfume containers to freaks of 13-gallon capacity. Some 2,000,000 nursing bottles are produced each month, and many more pop bottles. Owens Bottle Co. made thousands of specially inscribed bottles for Commander Richard Byrd to release in antarctic seas for ocean current tests. President of the company is William H. Boshart, onetime bookkeeper in Toledo's Eagle Brewery. Owens Bottle has made many a millionaire. The original investors, it is said, have garnered $25,000 for each dollar invested...
...Promotion of Aeronautics. It was as president of this Fund that Harry Guggenheim met Charles Augustus Lindbergh just before the latter's Atlantic flight. After Col. Lindbergh's return from Paris, the Fund made him its Technical Advisor and promoted his state-to-state cross-country junket. Current Fund activities include experimental work in fog-flying and a $100,000 competition for the safest airplane...
...perennially provocative commentator on the U. S. college scene is Princeton's judicious, pince-nezzed. slow-spoken Dean Christian Gauss. His current contributions have been in the Saturday Evening Post, entitled "The Good Old Times." Excerpts...
...important clause of the settlement states that Harvard will pay taxes at the current rate on all land purchased after July 1, 1928, which otherwise might legally be designated tax exempt. It does not affect the buildings on the land. A second clause limits the amount of land held before this date which the University may annually withdraw from taxation to 10 percent of the total by value. Inasmuch as the University had not been withdrawing land at a rate very much faster than this, the second clause loses most of its significance...