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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...women flyers have not fought to enter all events on an equality with men. What they did work for and gain in 1931-and take advantage of-was the privilege of flying in competitive planes with the larger displacement motors. (For several years 800 cu. in. was the limit except in the Aerol Trophy Race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 3, 1932 | 10/3/1932 | See Source »

...present, but in the future lives of young men whose ideals of the intellectual life have been shaped under its influence. Boys start in the secondary school as candidates for football glory. They are steered into a football career in college, where they are worked to the full limit of their physical powers, showered with demoralizing publicity, and are able to catch but a faint vision of the intellectual life for which the college is supposed to stand (and sometimes does). The practical problem is to rescue these boys from the football regime and substitute something else which will bring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Carnegie Foundation Head Hits College Football, Wants Horse Racing Instead | 9/29/1932 | See Source »

According to inquiries made at the Harvard Information Bureau yesterday such questions as how to get a divorce or buy a baby carriage are sandwiched in among the inquiries about college buildings and street addresses. The facilities of the Bureau are taxed to the limit to answer some of the strange questions which occasionally are asked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Information Bureau Flooded With Bizarre Queries About Everything From Divorces to Spelling, as Well as Buildings | 9/28/1932 | See Source »

...been in the past. The argument that relaxing the ban would cause a severe strain on the dining rooms of some of the House to the neglect of others is beside the point, since, as the CRIMSON pointed out last year, it would be quite possible to limit the number of meals which a guest could sign for. The increase in the cost of bookkeeping would be so slight that even in a time of depression it is an insufficient reason for resisting a change that would be generally approved. Fundamentally, the present prohibition is not only an inconvenience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTER-HOUSE EATING | 9/27/1932 | See Source »

...sold to Montreal's La Salle Petroleum Refinery, Ltd. (incorporated only last May), refined and placed on the Canadian market. Canada's oilmen spoke of "disturbing effects," pointed out that Mellon-controlled Gulf Oil Corp. was a member of the international oil conference which sought to limit Russian exports. Although they muttered about an "embargo," Ottawa was of the opinion that nothing could legally be done. Newshawks discovered the Russian tanker Aase Maersk lying in Montreal harbor loaded with 9,000 tons of rich crude from Batum, already consigned to La Salle Petroleum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Deals & Developments | 9/26/1932 | See Source »

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