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Neanderthal fossils, first found at Gibraltar in 1848, first scientifically described in 1856 from a find in the Neanderthal Gorge near Düsseldorf in Germany, have been discovered also in France, Belgium, Spain, Moravia, Croatia, Palestine, on the island of Jersey in the British Channel, on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean. This oldtimer persisted for a long but chronologically vague period, perhaps 150,000, perhaps 40,000 years ago. With his low-vaulted skull, huge eye-sockets and a short, broad nose, Neanderthal Man was no beauty, but he had just as big a brain...
...middle class. In 1912 he got up the first industrial arts exhibition ever held in the U. S.; 1,300 items of Austrian and German craftsmanship. He arranged an exhibition of jewelry (something Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art has not yet got around to), displayed New Jersey textiles, New Jersey bath tubs. New Jersey citizens came in droves...
...sent him $10.000 with which to acquire old Italian things, he saved the money and persuaded her to let him spend it on American paintings. The next year the Museum moved into a $750,000 building given by Department Storeman Louis Bamberger, held a long remembered exhibition of New Jersey leather products and processes...
...better than others because of its union policy, the whole Colorado coal industry grew sick. The year that Miss Roche took over, a pipeline which had snaked its way from the natural gas fields of the Texas Panhandle went into operation. Owned jointly by Standard Oil of New Jersey, Sinclair Oil and Colorado Public Service Co., it knocked the spots off the coal business. In 1929, 9,934,000 tons of coal were mined in Colorado. By last year production had fallen...
Unable to find enough sound private borrowers, unable to get more than a tiny return on Government securities, U. S. banks have in the last decade faced dwindling incomes. Service charges have been inaugurated or increased, bank interest rates have been cut or abolished. Few weeks ago New Jersey's banking department ordered banks to cut interest to a maximum of 1% on savings and time deposits, and local bankers were somewhat apprehensive of mass withdrawals. Quite different was the situation in Booneville, Iowa...