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Take a pencil. Take a U. S. map. Draw a line from Canton, Ohio, to Williamsport, Pa., then to the middle of the southern Tennessee border, then back to Canton. Within that wedge lies the great eastern bituminous coal field. Mark off the central third of the wedge: the southwest corner of Pennsylvania, the northern spike of West Virginia, a narrow strip that lies beyond the Ohio River in Ohio. If you drive fast, your car will take you across that country in five hours. It is "The Pittsburgh Area." the richest bituminous deposit in the world, whence comes...
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...horse to Colon, where they again took steamer for San Francisco." When Panamaian editors read that paragraph from an article on the late General Philip Henry Sheridan written for the Saturday Evening Post by Joseph Hergesheimer - they invited Author Hergesheimer to visit Panama, learn something about its geography.* Recently Mark Gosling, member of the legislative assembly of New South Wales, prominent Australian radical Socialist, began a crusade to form "Socialist cells" in Australian universities. Came news last week that Mr. Gosling has been repulsed from campus after campus with derisive shouts of "Bovril! Bovril...
...furthermore a world-famed authority on early British stained glass and ancient manuscripts. Eton is the most individual and matured of British schools. But even here is that insuperable tradition which aims today as it did when Percy Bysshe Shelley was at Eton to stamp every boy with the mark of the British game-playing gentleman. Games begin in the Autumn Term with footer and soccer.- Hardy youngsters may join the Eton Beagles and hunt hares on foot-a sport which last February the British League for the Prohibition of Cruel Sports protested (TIME. Feb. 9). Everyone at Eton looks...
Samuel Mather did not go to Harvard after graduating from St. Mark's School 62 years ago, because he was seriously injured that summer vacation working for his father's Cleveland Iron Mining Co. as timekeeper and payroll clerk. He convalesced in Europe for two years and returned directly to the family business. He amplified it until he became rated Ohio's richest citizen. Unlike John Davison Rockefeller, he and his wealth did not move away from Cleveland...