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...even smaller school, Knox College in Illinois, one-half of the 560 students receive deferments. All of the students in first and second year courses at the Illinois school get deferred; here only 58 percent receive deferments...
...Chicago, Episcopal Presiding Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill, president of the newly formed National Council of Churches, said that a strong, united church cannot be built with "halfhearted Presbyterians, feeble Episcopalians, lapsed Methodists and indifferent Lutherans. We must build on vigor, conviction and enthusiastic purpose...
...Manhattan's federal court, Judge John Knox sighed: "This is the end of a long period of litigation, and I should think that you would sing the Doxology...
...that note, the U.S. Government's 14-year-old monopoly suit against the Aluminum Co. of America ended last week. Both sides said they intended no appeal from Judge Knox's decision last June, in which he had refused to break up Alcoa, and declared that effective competition now exists in the aluminum industry. Judge Knox had also ordered big stockholders in both Alcoa and Aluminium Ltd. of Canada to get rid of holdings in one of the companies. At the final court session, Alcoa stockholders, who control 35% of the Canadian company, agreed to sell that stock...
...William Knox D'Arcy, an adventurous Englishman who had amassed a fortune in the Australian gold fields, scented a new bonanza. He paid Iran's Shah $20,000 for a 60-year monopoly on oil production in five-sixths of Iran, promised him an additional 16% of the profits. Seven years later, D'Arcy's prospectors brought in a gusher. In 1909, the Anglo-Persian Oil Co. (renamed Anglo-Iranian in 1935) was founded, has been spouting profits ever since. It built the world's largest refinery at Abadan, became a top-ranking crude...