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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...students; Yale, 35; University of California, 26; Stanford University, 24; Dartmouth College, 22; Princeton University, 21; Williams College, 18; Brown University, 16; Bowdoin College, 15; and Massachusetts institute of Technology, 14. Students registered from 43 states, the District of Columbia, Hawall, the Philippines, and 19 foreign countries. The largest state delegations were from Massachusetts, 153; New York, 66; California 56; Ohio, 49; and Pennsylvania...
When Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh pores over her multitudinous wedding gifts in the next few weeks she will inevitably look long and often at one of the largest presents, an oil painting. She will see a quartet of dark, florescent women dressed in bouffant gowns, standing amid blossomy garlands. Handsomely, romantically they represent types of Mexican womanhood? Spanish, Indian, Mestiza (Spanish-Indian), modern Mexican...
...deposits at Perm were accidentally discovered. Three years ago Professor Preobrajenski found in the Perm district what are now considered the world's largest deposits of potash, thus shattered the Franco-German potash monopoly. While digging for potash, drillers were pleasantly surprised to strike oil as well. U. S. petroleum is used chiefly in the form of gasoline; in Russia (with only 21,000 automobiles) the oil will be used mainly as fuel. Perm oil will turn many a wheel in the Ural industrial region, now dependent upon coal which must be transported some 1,200 miles...
...other from Cleveland to Zanesville, Ohio, the two crossing at Brewster, Ohio. The Van Sweringens, who consider the Wheeling & Lake Erie a desirable unit in their proposed Fourth Trunk Line, have acquired control of the road through stock held by the Nickel Plate and Alleghany Corp.* But Frank Taplin, largest single stockholder and leader of a powerful minority group of Wheeling & Lake Erie stockholders opposed to Van Sweringen denomination, has also a Trunk Line plan. Less ambitious than the Van Sweringens, the Taplins plan what is primarily a fast freight line between the Great Lakes and Baltimore; to them...
...coal, not oil, that founded the Taplin future. In 1900 Mr. Taplin became salesman for Pittsburgh Coal Co.; by 1912 he was sales manager. Soon he left Pittsburgh Coal Co., founded Cleveland & Western Coal Co. By 1926 his coal company, now North American Coal Corp.. was world's largest producer of tonnage...