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...pickle prospects are good. Probable gross: slightly better than 1938's $40,000,000. Pressing problems for this year are a shortage of dills (a reaction from last year's overselling of the dill market) and a dearth of one-bite pickles. Last year's summer rains played hob with this year's little fellows. Cucumbers grew overnight from midgets to larger sizes before they could be picked. This year's prospects (for next year's pickles) are better...
...London one day last week for talks with Britain's Chief of the Imperial General Staff, John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, Sixth Viscount Gort. In full regalia the generals met in London's Victoria Station. Together they toured Sandhurst and Aldershot where Lieut. General Sir John Dill showed off his latest tanks. General Gamelin peeped inside one, did not get in. At the spectacular Aldershot Tattoo, General Gamelin in a white-plumed hat took the salute while tanks, armored cars, caterpillar trucks, motorized antiaircraft units whirled past in the glare of searchlights...
Canny old Walter Dill Scott, having raised almost $40,000,000 in 19 years as Northwestern University's president, recently announced that he would go into well-earned retirement next June. Last week the final year of this phenomenal money-raiser was made memorable when, to his surprise, a man whom he scarcely knew dropped into the university's lap one of its biggest single gifts,* $6,735,000. The gift is to establish a Midwest institute of technology comparable to the East's M. I. T., the West's Caltech...
Most of Mr. Murphy's $6,735,000 will be used for a building. Walter Dill Scott was so excited about the gift that he promptly decided to clear a site on the Evanston campus, facing the lake, for his new institute. To make way, the $1,000,000 stone and steel Patten gymnasium, 302 by 132 feet and three stories high, will be cut into three pieces, moved on skids to a site four blocks away...
Army and navy officers, doctors from Mayo clinic and numerous air line officials conferred secretly with Ross A. McFarland '27 assistant professor of industrial research; David B. Dill professor of Industrial physiology; and several other scientists on the results of the investigations Saturday and yesterday. They refused to comment on their discussions...