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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...women were almost the sole beneficiaries. To the party the ghazi gave these directions: pay his surviving sister $10,000 yearly; provide varying fixed incomes for his five adopted daughters; buy Adopted Daughter and Airwoman Sahiba Gokcen a house; see that the two children of President Ismet Inönü, the ghazi's successor, get the best possible education; support the Society for Promulgation of the Turkish Language and History, Atatürk's pet hobby...
...years geologists have wondered what physiographic (earth-changing) agency caused wide alluvial plains-like the nine-mile valley floor east of Troy, N. Y.-which are out of all proportion to the deposits attributable to their present small streams. Last week Geologists Rudolf Ruedemann and Walter J. Schoonmaker of the New York State Museum solved the riddle, and at the same time implied that either geologists should get outdoors more or, when they did get out, should be looking at other things besides rocks. The physiographic force which had caused the Troy plain, and others like it, was the beaver...
Donor of Yale's windfall was Edward Benedict Cobb, a typical, obscure, sentimental old grad. Inheriting nearly $3,000,000 from his family (who had owned 300 acres in the heart of Tarrytown. N. Y. since Revolutionary times), Benedict Cobb went to Yale in 1868, played on his class chess team, made Psi Upsilon, was elected a class officer in his senior year. After his graduation in 1872, he got a law degree at Columbia and practiced law in Manhattan for twelve years. At 38, bored with the law, he retired and married a Yaleman's sister, Alice...
...York Times, a Rupert Hughes novel, We Live but Once, an old hatbox- these and other heterogeneous waste materials the Clifton (N. J.) Paper Board Co. converts into paperboard for corrugated shipping containers, folding cartons, shoe boxes. Last week, after a few trial runs, the company's newly modernized $2,000,000 factory was ready for full-blast operation. Clifton turned out 12,000 tons of paperboard in 1932; the plant is now good for 125,000 tons a year...
...traded them for a two-cylinder Autocar in 1918. By 1926 the Desiderios owned a 100-truck fleet. When the old Clifton firm went bankrupt six years ago, they turned up with a batch of uncollected bills and a checkbook. By 1935 they had two more plants - in Whippany, N. J. and Durham, Pa. But their first is still their pride...