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...poll taxes may be added to the basic rate, the maximum rate is $6. Mississippi's 1940 population: 2,183,796 persons. In 1940 only 175,824 Mississippians voted. Senator Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo's total vote in 1940: 143,341. He was elected by about one-fifteenth of the State's population, presumably including Reader Levings...
Foamglas, developed by Pittsburgh Corning Corp., is utterly unlike ordinary glass. It not only floats but is black in color, opaque, weighs about one-fifteenth as much as ordinary glass and can easily be sawed, drilled or shaped without chipping or shattering. To make it, glass is finely crushed and heated with carbon dust in a furnace. The molten mass rises and swells like dough as gas from the carbon froths up the melting glass into a foam which later cools and hardens while still keeping its foam structure. Waterproof, ratproof, rotproof, heat-resistant-Foamglas is finding its first...
...written, the development of the state-supported universities will be the dominant theme. The tremendous growth of these institutions during the first half of the twentieth century is a unique phenomenon. This growth will be recorded by historians as clear evidence that the optimistic intellectual courage born of the fifteenth century Renaissance was, five centuries later, still driving westward with undiminished vigor...
...other Harvard divot-diggers, Pote Macgowan, Henry Shepley (moved up to number two), Bill Allis, Art Tarlow, and Don Davis took their contests by convincing margins. The tightest battle ending on the fifteenth green. The Tuckerman-Allis duo finished all even with their opponents, to account for the half-point in the summary...
Other Harvard racers were: Bill Apthcrpe, eleventh, Herb Sise '34, twelfth; John Burton, thirteenth; W Egelhoff 1G.B., fourteenth; Braley Cameron, fifteenth; Tom Cochrane, eighteenth; Fred Coolidge '41, twentieth; Herb Green '41, twenty-first; Roger Wilson, twenty-third; Streeter Bass '39, twenty-fourth; R. Cabot, twenty-seventh; Henry Bigelow, twenty-eighth; Joe Fitzpatrick, twenty-eighth; Al Morrison, thirtieth; Preble Motley, thirty-first; Jim Gamble, thirty-third; Finn Ferner, thirty-third; C. Coolidge, thirty-fifth; Bill La Croix, thirty-seventh; J. Bemis, thirty-ninth; and Bob Sturgis, fortieth...