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...reviewing Summary Sheets for indication of specific factors which appear in a general sense to positively or negatively affect admissions, OCR found that the most frequent comments indicating why an applicant was rejected stated that an applicant was "hookless," "not special," "standard," "flat," or otherwise "not unique in the H/R pool," and, thus, would have difficulty getting admitted. The second most frequent comment for rejected applicants was that they were weak academically, in comparison to other applicants. On the plus side, the most clear indication of positive weight which appeared to significantly increase an applicant's chance of admissions...
...Hookless Future. "I was born in the midst of vast cotton plantations," Mary's story begins, and things "were about as they had been during the days of slavery." Ashton Hall-the Kimbrough place close to the Jefferson Davis house on the Gulf Coast near Biloxi-featured all the regulation black nannies and the beaux whose only weakness was the bottle. A gallant gentleman named Jerome Winston was Mary's fiance. Alas, there came the day when Daddy, old Judge Kimbrough, pronounced the terrible words: "Jerome Winston is not worthy of the love of my little daughter." Before...
...multitude of sources, before he began to achieve any commercial success with the gadget. Judson was unable to perfect it and it was not until 1913 that one Gideon Sundback developed the "zipper" as everyone now knows it. Started that year in a $300-a-year shack in Meadville, Hookless Fastener Co., maker of "Talon" fasteners, immediately went to town, is now the biggest of 16-odd U. S. zipper makers...
...Total Hookless production has never been revealed, for Colonel Walker and Son Walter Delawater Walker are incurably publicity-shy, but zippermen estimate it as about 35,000,000 zippers a year, or 75% of total U. S. production. Hookless' only worry is Japan, which has jumped into zippers and, despite a 66% tariff, can still undersell Hookless by 25% in the U. S. Last year Japan sold 26,000,000 zippers in the U. S. But Hookless has little to fear. FORTUNE estimated Hookless gross at $4,500,000 in 1931, and it is presumably over...
...page advertisement in the New York Herald Tribune appeared a facsimile of the following cablegram from London: "PRINCE WALES PRINCE GEORGE WEARING SLIDE FASTENERS ON TROUSER FLIES STOP LORD LOUIS MOUNTBATTEN RECOMMENDED THIS IDEA TO THEM STOP FASTENERS USED ARE MANUFACTURED BY IMPERIAL CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES LTD BY ARRANGEMENT WITH HOOKLESS FASTENER COMPANY OF PENNSYLVANIA...