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...corral small-fry depositors, Atlanta's Citizens' and Southern National Bank twirled a new rope last week. It set up a Hopalong Cassidy's Saving Rodeo. For a minimum deposit of $2, Hoppy's worshipers got a "tenderfoot" badge and a plastic bank shaped to look like their hero. As their savings grow, so will their rank-from "wrangler" (a $10 account) to "Bar 20 Foreman" ($500). For all this, the bank paid Cassidy a set fee: 50? per new account plus $1 for the thrift kit. In four days the Citizens' National, Georgia...
Last week, Dr. Willard F. Libby of the University of Chicago gave his decision on some charred bison bones sent to him by Dr. Elias Howard Sellards of Austin, Texas, who took them from a deposit full of distinctive Folsom artifacts. Dr. Libby measured the radioactivity of the carbon in the remains of the bones' organic material.* His conclusion: the bison died (and was probably cooked and eaten) about 10,000 years ago. Therefore, Folsom Man must have been a bison-chasing Texan at that remote period...
...grade uranium ore called carnotite. Paddy staked a 160-acre claim for himself, a few more for his sons, and waited for the Government to come and give him $10,000. He didn't get it; the big bonus is offered only to those who find a deposit of high-grade ore, such as pitchblende. But his discovery, made at the 7,000-foot level on a huge, reddish mesa called Haystack Mountain (only 100 miles from the Los Alamos atomic project), set off a uranium rush which took Grants the way Grant took Richmond...
Syracuse, New York: December 28, E. Tefft Barker '37, 300 First Trust & Deposit Building; Washington, D. C.: December 30, William T. Lesh '31, Securities and Exchanges Commission; Western Pennsylvania: December 28, Paul M. Hickox '38, 1206 May Building, Pittsburgh...
...solicitors were ordered to get a one dollar deposit from each person, the balance of two dollars coming due on delivery of the book. The response was far better than was expected, and well over the necessary amount was subscribed. "Testament" editor William H. Mogan '52 announced that department editors had been chosen and work would begin immediately...