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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crews got off from the starting line and rowed over the first half mile of the course with all three crews abreast. Here Pearson's shell started to pull away gradually as rougher water was encountered, until it had a length and a half margin over Sturges' crew just beyond the Harvard Bridge. The strokes dropped to 29 and 28 as the water grew more troublesome, and the three boats continued downstream and across the finish line with the Sophomores three lengths ahead of the Junior eight, and Lawrence's Sophomore crew another length in the rear. The winning crew...
...ergot used in medicine. The fact that a friend of his, Howard W. Ambruster, Manhattan importer, controlled a large portion of the available supply of Spanish ergot, had no bearing on his attitude, he said. Not only might it injure the cause of pure ergot if such a suggestion got abroad, but he said that it would be triply unfortunate since: 1) He had been nominated for the Hanbury Medal to be awarded by the British Pharmaceutical Society on May 15; 2) He had submitted in the Hearst prohibition contest a carefully studied plan, the influence of which might...
...night-flying transcontinental airmail got under way last week. On the new schedule, letters posted on either coast one evening are delivered at the opposite coast two mornings (about 32 hours) later. This has been made feasible by floodlighting the route's western terminus, Oakland Municipal Airport. Until the Rockies were flown at night, the shortest airmail trip across the continent was performed in one day, one night, one day. Now it is done in one night, one day, one night-saving one business...
...prodigious person. Son of a German-born Boston milkman, he graduated from grammar school at 11 and entered the Cambridge Latin School for Boys. As a tribute to his small size his new schoolmates promptly stuffed him into an ash can. At a slightly more advanced age he got through Harvard-in two years, with Phi Beta Kappa, the John Harvard Scholarship and, on his diploma, summa cum laude. A little after that he passed from the Harvard Law School to the prominent Boston law firm of Ropes, Gray, Boyden & Perkins. With a teriffic capacity for work...
...output, International decided to invest in newspapers, to "buy a market." A case in point: in 1927 International had supplied one-third of the newsprint for the Herald and Traveler, in 1928 one-sixth. The outlook for 1929 was dubious. By purchasing stock in the two newspapers. International got their whole newsprint order. Mr. Graustein next argued that vertical combinations between newspapers and newsprintmakers were natural and wise. He cited the Chicago Tribune and the New York Times in the U. S., the Rothermere and the Berry papers in England, all of which own paper mills. To be sure...