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High-grade manganese is all abroad, but the greatest supply of low-grade manganese in the world is near Butte, Mont. In World War I, U. S. producers went to work on their submarginal deposits, by 1918 were turning out 35% of U. S. needs. After the Armistice the cheaper product of foreign mines drove down U. S. production to the vanishing point. Last week from big Anaconda Copper came word that U. S. manganese would go to market again. Awarded to Anaconda by the new Government-owned Metal Reserve Co. was a contract for 240,000 tons of manganese...
George H. Emernson scholarships to George C. Kennedy '40, of Monida, Mont.; and Frederick C. Novello 2G, of Somerville, Mass...
Leland D. Burlingame, of Lebanon, N. H. S.B. U. of N. H.; Pao-tung Ching, of Shanghai, China, S.M. Purdue '40; George A. Clemow, of Billings, Mont., S.B. Montana State '40; Ping Chuan Feng, of Peiping, China, S.M. Yenching '34; Ewan W. Fletcher, S.M. '40, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Robert E. Geauque, of St. Louis., S.M. Missouri '40; Vernon B. Hammer, of Portland, Ore., S.B. Washington '40; William Franklin, S.M. '40, of Brooklyn...
From a Massachusetts Quaker family 300 years old came Burt Wheeler, on Feb. 27, 1882. From the start he was on the scramble. Out of Michigan Law School in 1905, he went west, there heard the fabulous tales of attorneys' fees in Butte, Mont., where F. Augustus Heinze, copper baron, and Amalgamated Copper Co. (the "Standard Oil crowd") were at war for control of "the richest hill on earth." But by the time young Wheeler settled in Butte the fight was over and the fees had fled. He became a law clerk, then hung out his own shingle...
During World War I the young D. A. got into serious trouble with war-hysterical citizens. He refused to be "diligent" in prosecuting "pro-Germans" whose crime was mainly their accent. Once at Dillon, Mont., a mob drove him out of town when he tried to speak. On the outskirts he stopped, tried again, again was driven away, heckling his hecklers over his shoulder as he left...