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...neice, Mrs. Hazel Dike of New Orleans, La., claimed that she was promised more than the $15,000 left to her in the will, and she sought a 60-day delay in hearing the case...
Matter of Time. While lumbermen rejoiced, a chill went through U.S. shipowners. "This is the first breach in the dike." said Pacific Maritime Association President J. Paul St. Sure. Shipping men fear that it is just a matter of time before other industries-sugar, newsprint, iron and steel pipe, petroleum-try for the same concessions. Yet shipowners know that the Jones Act has failed miserably in its effort to isolate U.S. shipping from the inevitable tides of economics...
...Dike Breached. But as the Digest's readership grew, so did Wallace's urge to print more surefire Digest titles than other magazines were supplying him. In 1930 he published the Digest's first original article-a study of the effect of music on workaday efficiency-and the dike was breached. From then on, the number of original contributions to the Digest-a fair share of them "planted" first in other magazines-crept steadily upward. Today, they constitute 70% of every issue...
...below-zero nights dreaming up tall tales to intrigue the tourists, come summer. Choice tales of yesteryear, apparently now out of circulation, related how much we relished ice worms for breakfast, how we mined gold with aureal (aurora borealis) energy, and how our engineering students built the Klon Dike...
Brown snapped back with a 28-14 victory in 1949, but the Crimson won in 1950, 14 to 13, on Dike Hyde's extra point, after Lowenstein's running and passing had brought the team from behind. The two rivals split in 1951 and 1952, and the Crimson's 1953 win intervened before Brown began its reign of power...