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...Testament, and which they called "unique in prehistory." The building was circular and its walls, of sun-dried brick, were more than a yard thick. Twelve rooms were laid out around the circle, and across it were three rectangular rooms in series. The diggers believed that the largest was a cult-room and that a small anteroom was a sanctum. Mysterious bell-shaped objects made of polished marble may have served either as weights or as cult paraphernalia...
Clinton Hoadley Crane, 63, naval architect, mining engineer, president of Missouri's St. Joseph Lead Co. (largest U. S. lead producer); the William Lawrence Saunders medal, top award of the American Institute of Mining & Metallurgical Engineers. Born to well-to-do parents in New Jersey, Clinton Crane was first captivated by sailing, designed small boats and yachts, won the Seawanhaka cup four times, built the motorboat Dixie in which he made a world speed record. After studying naval architecture in Glasgow, he designed U. S. warboats for Philadelphia's William Cramp & Sons. Because St. Joseph Lead...
...result of a two days campaign for members, the Harvard Post of the Veterans of Future Wars has enrolled approximately 200 students, with the movement spreading rapidly. Active campaigning has thus far been limited to the Union, as the largest center in the University, but other enlistment centers will be established in the Houses within the next few days...
...Saturday Evening Post's 3,000-000 readers for many months with his inimitable Mr. Tutt; thousands more have enjoyed his novels. But all of these admirers, we are afraid, will be disappointed in "Manhattan Murder," the story of a man and a girl, plus one of the largest assortments of cops and robbers ever captured between the covers of a detective story. This complexity is further increased by the disconnected essay on crime methods which has been interspersed at an average of every five pages. The author is better than a middling fair lawyer in his own right...
...subject of taxes both mail-order men did plenty of grumbling. Said Sears' Wood: "Our tax bill for the fiscal year . . . was $6,535,704, the largest in our history except for the War year 1918, and $2,000,000 greater than for the year ending Jan. 29, 1935. This does not include sales taxes, excise taxes or processing taxes." Said Ward's Avery: "The company is required to file annually more than 1,600 tax returns.* The amount of $5,221,000 (equal to $1.14 per share of common stock) represented the company's direct expense...