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Many Freshmen each year win their numerals, class letters. Last year soccer gave the largest number. To win his numerals a Freshman must play against Yale...
...Harvard University library system is the largest university library system in the world. As far as this country is concerned, speaking of all libraries, we are the third largest, outranked only by the Congressional Library in Washington and the New York Public Library. As far as the world is concerned, we are the seventh largest...
Ward Road Jail. What claims to be the largest prison in the world, the Ward Road jail, capacity 8,000, stands on the edge of the Japanese part of the International Settlement under crossfire from both sides for over a week. Shells crashed right into the building last week, killed eight prisoners in the cells, wounded 70, drove several others insane. Volunteers from the International Settlement last week finally arranged for the prisoners to be evacuated in busses to the outskirts of the Chinese city. A morning's load of 500, guarded by British and U.S. armored cars...
Before starting on a cruise from Hamburg, Germany on her four-masted sailing yacht Sea Cloud, Mrs, Joseph Edward Davies, a director and largest stockholder of General Foods Corp., wife of the U. S. Ambassador to the U. S. S. R., who last year took with her to the Soviet Union 2,000 pints of frozen cream, ordered from the U. S. two tons of frozen fruits, vegetables, and poultry, all packed by a General Foods subsidiary...
...years ago last week, when Martin Van Buren was President, Brothers-in-law William Procter, who made candles, and James Gamble, who made soap, joined forces in a shed in Cincinnati, set about selling their products from door to door with one assistant. Last week P. & G., now the largest U. S. maker of soap and allied products-with 10,000 employes, total assets of $133.000.000, net income last year of $16,000,000-distinguished itself by making no fuss whatever over the fact that it is one of the few great U. S. corporations with a century of history...