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Drawing students from 46 states, one territory and 10 foreign countries, the school has a total registration of 1,002, according to Assistant Dean George H. Lombard '33. It is the largest number since 1932 and 60 more than last year...
Elections must be over before any dependable forecast of the next Roosevelt Budget is available, but last week-with Congress' return ten weeks off-the President began budget making. Since the next deficit looms at least $4,000,000,000 (his second largest), his first conferences with Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, Assistant Secretary John Hanes, Budget Director Bell could hardly have been...
...dank, smelly meadows of Linden, N.J. are pimpled with an enormous collection of oil tanks-30 belonging to Sinclair, 175 to Cities Service, 800 to Standard Oil of New Jersey-huddled closely around one of the largest U.S. refineries (Standard's). One day last week a Cities Service tank of ethyl gasoline blew up with force enough to toss its top 150 yards. A flaming geyser of 1,680,000 gallons of gasoline in a few minutes was splattering a dozen other tanks. By midnight 18 tanks had collapsed into a scarlet pool of blazing oil. Watchers got scorched...
...Powel Jr. wanted to buy a radio for Powel III. Asked to pay $130 for a one-tube set, he found he could buy parts and make one himself for $35. Result was Crosley Radio Corp. of Cincinnati, Ohio, now approximately fourth largest U.S. radio producer. From the vocation of making radios to the avocation of radio broadcasting was a short shunt and the upshot was station WLW, most powerful in the world along with Moscow's RVI. WLW sends out such big charges (500,000 watts) that neighbors report hearing hillbilly bands in their drainpipes and lighting electric...
Phillips Brooks House is his largest competitor in the collection of used clothes, and he estimates that the charitable organization takes fifty per cent of all cast-offs in the University...