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...through the ranks to become his alma mater's president in 1927. As quick as you could say Frederick Robinson, he founded a School of Business, more than doubled his college's enrollment. He became one of the highest-salaried ($21,000) heads of one of the largest U. S. colleges (22,000 students). Last week Dr. Robinson hustled...
...also owns the Ready Mixed Concrete Co. and Kansas City's largest wholesale liquor establishment, both of which local purchasers wisely patronize. *Not strictly true...
...phylum (subkingdom) of invertebrates which includes crayfish, shrimps, lobsters, crabs, water fleas, barnacles, spiders, scorpions, ticks, insects. Reason: The phylum of arthropods (the name means "jointed legs") has the greatest number of species and individuals, occupies the widest stretches of territory and the greatest variety of habitat, consumes the largest amounts and the most diverse kinds of food, defends itself most capably from its enemies. Of more than a million known species of animals, 95% are invertebrates, and over three-fourths of them are arthropods...
...Largest of living invertebrates are the giant squids. In the early 19th Century a sea captain brought on board his ship fragments of such a giant which showed it to have been 50 ft. long, not including the ten arms. Scars of combat with giant squids have been found on the hides of whales. Largest of known insects, extinct for 170,000,000 years, had a wingspread of 2 ft. 6 in. Largest of known arthropods was Pterygotus, 9 ft. long, which faintly resembled a lobster and roamed on the Silurian sea bottoms of 350,000,000 years...
...former are held by Owens-Illinois Glass Co., for the latter by the Hartford-Empire Co. Last year 67.4% of all glass containers in the U. S. were made under Hartford-Empire licenses, 29.2% under Owens-Illinois, leaving but 3.4% for independents. Owens-Illinois is a manufacturer, largest of its kind in the world, but Hartford-Empire makes nothing, merely licenses its patents or rents machinery. In 1924, 1932 and 1935 it formed cross-licensing agreements with Owens-Illinois, extending its influence over both processes...