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Said to be the largest unincorporated town in the U. S., Weirton, W. Va., population 16,000, lies in a fold of the hills about 40 mi. west of Pittsburgh. Its arterial main street bisects the dingy rambling mills of Weirton Steel Co. On narrower streets that wind up the steep hills, Weirton's workers live in frame houses, built against the hillside. Two miles outside Weirton, in dramatic proximity to the inevitable squalor of U. S. industrial life, stands "The Lodge," the comfortable, greystone mansion of Weirton's founder, Ernest Tener Weir, its most conspicuous feature...
Mathew Town, largest island village. Armed natives blamed Josiah Erickson of Swampscott, Mass., co-owner of Inagua's $500,000 salt factory, for the issuance of the order. They stormed the Erickson West Indies store, killed one employe, then roamed the island searching for other "Yankees." The enraged natives fired the store, radio station, salt buildings, the Commissioner's residence, the warehouse. Erickson, four other American residents, Commissioner Fields, eight Negroes grabbed rifles, tear-gas guns, cartridges, shot their way clear to the launch...
...Paris. Young Fleishhacker rose speedily to the top, but not solely because he married the boss's daughter. Banker Fleishhacker has a cold, keen brain perfectly adapted to his job. In 1932, after various other mergers, the bank grew into the present Anglo California National Bank, fourth largest in California (total assets: $239,500,000), with Herbert Fleishhacker president, his quieter, older brother, Mortimer, chairman. Generally reputed to be heavy but highly successful investors, the Brothers Fleishhacker have interests in shipping, agriculture, oil, paper, mining, hotels, retail stores, cement...
...sprout overnight, sprout erratically. Until an Irish Quaker from West Chester, Pa. took a hand in the procedure 33 years ago, mushroom growing was a matter of almost pure chance. Last week the industry Edward Henry Jacob built up from, a six-foot plot in his cellar was the largest mushroom business in the U. S., and it was busy reaping the harvest from history's most important single improvement in mushroom growing...
Because of the limitation by Corporation vote of the Freshman Class to around 1000, registration does not vary much from year to year, but early indications are that the size of the latest Class will be slightly less than that of any of the last five years. Largest on record was 1936, 1117 strong in its Freshman year...