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Freistater of The Bronx, whom the New York City Board of Education considered too fat for a permanent teaching job in the city schools (TIME, Dec. 9 et ante). Described by her father as "big and strong," Rose three months ago had weighed 182 lb., which was 32 Ib. over the Board's limit for 5 ft. 2 in. teachers. Last week, ready for a hearing before the State Commissioner, she weighed in at 154 lb., fully dressed. "She's down to 150 without her clothes," crowed her attorney...
...Farmers are guaranteed for 1936 not less than 5? a Ib. for cotton they do not raise. 35? a bu. for corn they do not raise, $1.25 for each hog they do raise. Every hog over their quota will cost them...
...face of a diamond tool. Acheson called the stuff "carborundum," because he thought it was composed of corundum and carbon before it was analyzed as silicon carbide. The first crude furnace produced a quarter-pound of carborundum a day. which was sold to jewelers for $880 per Ib. Frank Tone, a good businessman as well as an able scientist, built up the company that today makes 16,000 tons of carborundum a year, sells it for 15? per Ib. His own inventions, of which he has patented more than 150, include silicon carbide electrodes for high-temperature electric furnaces...
Told to increase her weight by at least 40 Ib. before she plays plump Queen Victoria in Manhattan this winter, Helen, Hayes ate her first birthday cake in 15 years, proudly announced that she already weighs 103 lb., said. 'I want to be luscious-luscious...
...attached to their caps. Notre Dame 14, Carnegie Tech 3-when Notre Dame, this season reported preparing to modify the Rockne system, rallied with two touchdowns in the last half. California 10, St. Mary's oat Berkeley, where a crowd of 55,000 saw California linemen, outweighed 16 Ib. apiece, make openings for a touchdown and a field goal in the second quarter...