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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After its first meeting of the year the Student Council last night announced the collection for its Budget of the largest sum since 1931. During the three days of registration the Council collected $4,578.75 in cash and obtained $4,099 in pledges, a total...
...population had increased more rapidly than any in Europe; by 1929 her wheat and rye production surpassed her pre-war average. Poland was Europe's third largest producer of crude oil, the world's third largest producer of zinc. She had rebuilt her steel industry to eighth largest in Europe, had laid 823 miles of railroads, built 6,750 hydroelectric plants. And although her impoverished peasantry constituted a problem that no intelligent Pole denied, farm wealth had steadily increased: Poland ranked fifth among the world's powers in horses, eighth in cattle, fifth in pigs...
...commissions to paint the walls of post offices, law courts, schools, Army posts, hospitals, customs houses. Occasionally an aroused and enraged citizenry protested on political grounds, sometimes on artistic, but the space continued to get slapped. Last week, with 215 U. S. painters competing, two Chicagoans won the largest mural commission yet awarded by the Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts: $29,000 for frescoes to decorate the new St. Louis post office. The winners: small, dark, intense Edward Millman and small, dark, less intense Mitchell Siporin, longtime friends, who last collaborated on murals for the Decatur...
...weeks after Germany had made an alliance with Japan's enemy, Russia, grinning Director Suejiro Ogawa of the Chicago bureau decided the time had come to get busy. In the New York Journal of Commerce he ran a full-page advertisement: "Japan is America's Third Largest Customer ... if America would buy more Japanese goods United States exports to Japan could be expanded to even larger proportions...
Many Freshmen seem to desire to keep on with Mathematics as 382 are signed up for the elementary course. History 32a remains the largest advanced History course with 107 enrolled this year...