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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Headmaster The Hun School Princeton, N...
...Rochester, N. Y., Patent Attorney Gerhard A. Ellestad exhibited the following patented devices...
...magnesium alloy that is one-third lighter than aluminum and good for airplane and machinery parts. At Marquette, Mich., on Lake Superior, a subsidiary called Cliffs Dow Chemical Co., in which the parent company has a 60% interest, makes charcoal, combustible gases and acids from wood. Near Wilmington, N. C., on the Atlantic Ocean, a big plant extracts bromine from the sea, manufactures ethylene dibromide for use in antiknock gasolines. Partner on a 50-50 basis in this venture is Ethyl Gasoline Corp., which uses the entire output of the seaside plant. For the last fiscal year...
...applied for home relief but they laughed at me when I told them I was one of the Ebbets. . . . I even tried to get a job at Ebbets Field but they won't let an Ebbets in there." Moping about her cold parlor in Montclair, N. J., Miss Ada E. Ebbets, 69-year-old sister of President Ebbets, revealed that she too had received no money for four years from the estate executors. Few weeks ago occurred the Dodgers' annual Ebbets dinner, paid for by a $5,000 trust fund left by President Ebbets which is not entailed...
Emulating Uncle Tom's Cabin's Eliza, a fox fleeing from hounds of the Genesee Valley Hunt near Geneseo, N. Y. last week darted across the thin ice of the Genesee River to safety. Whereas Eliza merely left the bloodhounds baying on the brim, Geneseo's fox lured its pursuers out on the ice, which broke under them, drowning ten of the Hunt's hounds, including Wonder and Bouncer, the two best...