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...paper mills hiked the price. Last week, with Canadian newsprint selling for $126 a ton, more than twice the 1945 price, the publishers heard good news about a possible cheaper substitute. In New Orleans, Valentine Pulp & Paper Co. announced that it would build a $2,633,000 mill at Lockport, La. to make newsprint from bagasse, a waste fiber left after grinding sugar cane. In a year, Valentine expects to be turning out 50 tons a day, get other companies interested in the process...
...George William Cardinal Mundelein, asked him to find good Catholic, bad Fascist Nobile a U. S. job. Few weeks later Cardinal Mundelein found one barely twelve miles southwest of his own Chicago Archdiocese. The job: head of the aeronautical engineering department of Lewis Holy Name School of Aeronautics near Lockport, Ill. Last week, lonely, greying, but still vigorous at 54, Umberto Nobile boarded the Conte di Savoia...
Willard Weaver Ransom, of Lockport, N. Y., appointed Assistant in Chemistry. A.B. Williams...
...Cole 1L of Cambridge; the Hennen Jennings Scholarships to Harry L. Anthony, 3D., Gr.E.S. of Edgewater Park, New Jersey, and to William B. Agoos of Freemansport, Pennsylvania; the Eveleth Scholarships of the Engineering School to Charles E. Buchwald of Tribes Hill, New York, and to David R. Crosby of Lockport, New York...
...McCormick and his wife (the late Edith Rockefeller McCormick) were bearing the financial brunt of Chicago's opera performances. The deficits were enormous, the affairs badly tangled. Mr. McCormick thought that practical, hard-working Herbert Johnson might help straighten things out. Professionally unacquainted with music and musicians, a Lockport, Ill. native with only routine office experience, Herbert Johnson soon got a taste for prima-donna intrigues and backstage excitement. He had worked up to become vice president and business manager of Insull's Civic Opera Company when disaster struck it. Last winter, lost without opera's confusion...