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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about 30 more votes are required Alden Briggs '25, Secretary of the Student Council, declared that he would hold the polls open until 8 o'clock this evening. Men who wish to vote may either bring their postcards to his room in Holworthy 16 before that time or may mail them...
What does it cost to operate an airline? English and French companies generally guard this secret. But the Franco-Rumanian Air Transport Company, which carries passengers, freight and mail from Paris to Bucharest across Central Europe, gave figures. It spent 17,000,000 francs in 1923, or about $850,000, flying 10,090 hr. and 800,000 mi.-something over a dollar a mile. How was the dollar spent? Twenty-five cents for depreciation, 25c. for upkeep of plane and motor, 12c. for fuel and oil, 3c. for automobile transportation, 20c. for pay of pilots and other personnel...
UNMAILED LETTERS-Joseph H. Odell-Dutton ($2.50). Joseph H. Odell, now head of great philanthropic interests in Delaware, identified with the DuPonts, wrote a number of intimate, introspective letters to his friends. Too shy to mail them, he has published them. Religion,† the English countryside, literature and dreams, flowering Japan, Burmah, the East, are his themes...
While the Yale tickets are going out by mail; tickets to the Brown-Harvard game on Saturday are also in heavy demand. With the Brown supporters occupying 11 entire sections, the estimated attendance tomorrow will be about 45,000, which is greater by 5000 than the crowd which attended the same game last year. About the only tickets which are left on sale now are those in the colonnade, the bowl, and the wooden stands. These seats are still on sale at the Cambridge and Boston agencies, and at Soldiers Field on the afternoon of the game...
Sears, Roebuck & Co., famed Chicago mail-order house, last week elected a new president, Charles M. Kittle, to succeed Julius Rosenwald. Because of the large trading in Sears, Roebuck shares on the New York Stock Exchange, brokerage houses, financial bigwigs evinced interest. Mr. Kittle, now 44, began his rise to fortune as a waterboy to a railroad section-gang when he was 14. At 17, he was a telegraph operator, then cashier, chief clerk, superintendent. He was general manager of the Illinois Central Railroad. During the War. he managed the Illinois Central and three additional railroads...