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...front cover) California is a phenomenon as well as a state. Its soil rises to the highest point in the 48 United States (Mt. Whitney, 14,496 ft.), sinks to the continent's deepest dimple (Death Valley, -276 ft.). In the fragrant gloom of Sequoia National Park indigenously grow some of the world's hugest trees; yet most Californians rest under the shade of the transplanted Australian eucalyptus. Across the State's deserts, prospectors still ride dusty, neat-footed burros, while at Santa Monica mechanics in the Douglas plant build some of the world's fastest...
Meantime, on the other side of the continent, the National Association of Manufacturers put on its most polished duelling-ground manners, proposed that the Wartime industrial peace agreement be revived, "challenged" the A. F. of L. "to bring forth a similar acceptance." Viewing the proposition with the deepest suspicion, President Green branded the proposal a "subterfuge," snapped: "Let them first publicly announce that they will obey the decisions of constituted authorities as the President suggested. . . . They can issue no challenge to Labor?they can make no protests...
...Deepest gold mine in the world is the Robinson Deep in South Africa's Witwatersrand, whence comes more than half of present world gold production. The Robinson Deep has sunk an inclined 3-mile shaft to a vertical depth of 8,380 ft. At that depth miners sweat, stagger and topple in a temperature of 104°, a humidity of nearly 100. Working efficiency is less than 30%. With gold prices soaring and money to spend, the company asked Willis Haviland Carrier, Newark engineer, to plan the world's biggest air-conditioning plant. Last week, with plans drawn...
...CRIMSON extends its deepest sympathy to the friends and relatives of Edward Aiden Timmins '37, Whose picture was left out of the Freshman Red Book...
...source of deepest pleasure that at last a legitimate crime can figure as one of the episodes of this column. The crime in question, perpetrated against a denizen of the Dunster House, is almost worthy of the attentions of the Federal Government's J. Edgar Hoover and his crack band of college trained sleuths. The fact that it is still shrouded in mystery can detract little from the story itself...