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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although some U. S. firms have done an annual gross business of more than a billion dollars (TIME, May 24), none until last week was capitalized at that figure.* The American Telephone & Telegraph Co. has just made the mark by issuing $154,000,000 of new stock and thus bringing its outstanding total to $1,075,597,500. New shares will be distributed to present stockholders on a 1:6 ratio...
Grumbles, Trojan title holder in the low hurdles, was placed in the first heat and showed enough under wraps to mark him as the most dangerous man over the low sticks today. West of Stanford and Wolf of Pennsylvania staged a spirited struggle for first honors in the second heat which the judges called a tie. This race was run in 24 seconds flat, the fastest of the five trials. Moore of Penn State, Lawrence of Pennsylvania, Steinbrenner of M. I. T. all finished in the van in the remaining races...
...first I.C.A.A.A.A. record to fall was the shot put mark, which Houser the Southern California phenomenon shattered with ease. His heave of 49ft, 11 3-4 in, bettered the old mark of 49 feet 9 5-8 inches set by Ralph Hills of Princeton at Philadelphia last spring. Gerkin of California placed second, Hoffman of the Stanford Cardinals was third, Alekski another Trojan took fourth, and Pratt, the Crimson weight tosser captured the last qualifying place...
...feet 3 3-8 inches. Gerkin and Hoffman finished close behind him in the platter sailing even. In the pole vault Barnes, Olympic and Association champion, was the cynosure of all eyes in the Stadium but he was content to qualify along with four others at the 12 foot mark...
...high jump the rangy pair of Cardinal athletes, King and Work tied for the first two places with a mark of 6 feet 2 1-4 inches. Hampton of California, Norton of Georgetown, and Coggeshall of U. S. C. captured the remaining three places with slightly lower marks. In the hammer throw, Biggs of Syracuse turned in the longest heave, followed by Taylor of Pennsylvania and Ide of Penn State...