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...snowing on the northern peninsula of Michigan one afternoon last week. At the vast deserted quarries of Inland Lime & Stone Co., 8 mi. from Manistique, a small group of men-Army & Navy observers, men from the Bureau of Mines and the Coast & Geodetic Survey, quarrymen, photographers - huddled under a line of steel freight cars. No other humans should have been within a mile of them. The occasion was dangerous. The military men said that during a heavy explosion it was best to stand on one's toes with the mouth open. The concussion then had less effect...
...undergraduates of today will be the electorate of tomorrow and their sentiments regarding issues of national importance, expressed in their reaction to the principles and personalities of the men who are at present in the lime-light of possible nomination, are of interest. One feature of the present straw vote was lacking in those conducted by many college newspapers four years ago. In its columns the CRIMSON will publish the opinions of prominent local politicians concerning all the candidates whose names will appear on the ballot...
...Central Terminal. Chicago's Tribune Tower. Detroit's General Motors Building. Only two months ago the company received the largest order in its history-3,200 cars for Manhattan's Rockefeller Center (Radio City). The company has developed a long list of by-products including quick lime, pulverized limestone for fertilizer, fluxing stone for blast furnaces, a powder for tennis courts, stone for dams, breakwaters and railroad embankments. Yet because the building industry was deflated long before the current Depression, Indiana Limestone has had difficulty in making both ends meet. In its 1928 fiscal year it made...
...periods when financial retrenchment becomes necessary the whittling-down process often brings into the lime-light expenditures of money which on examination prove to have been virtually useless and unworthy, while better causes have been starving from non-support. Already there has had to be a decided slash in expenditures for winter sports by reducing schedules and an unfortunate elimination of Junior Varsity teams. More important, athletic officials have also indicated definitely that the baseball squad will not take its annual spring trip this year...
...diet should be kept low, not eliminated, but rigidly restrained. The diet elements that should be stressed are fruit, milk and vegetables. Raw vegetables, celery and lettuce, are also essential. That is what we know as 'bulk' or 'roughage.' Those elements provide the lime, eliminate the acid, that is the final solution, not only to dental health, but physical fitness...