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Best solution was by Burwell Spurlok, 25, recently married son of a York, Neb. lawyer, Grinnell (Iowa) College A.B., onetime Harvard law student, onetime jobhunter, who expects to graduate next month from the University of Colorado College of Engineering. His reward: $100. A fact which the American Institute of Chemical Engineers found significant to the continuing success of U. S. industry: "Not only was the quality of winning solutions better than in previous years, but also there were this year more good solutions and few really poor ones...
Tired of being known only as "Brother Charlie," the late great William Jennings Bryan's brother got himself elected Mayor of Lincoln, Neb. in 1915, went on to become threetime Governor of Nebraska, Democratic candidate for Vice President in 1924. Last week in Lincoln, friends crowded around to congratulate the Mayor-elect. Most of them still call him "Brother Charlie...
First Dieselectric "neo-train" in regular service was on Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. Burlington's famed Zephyr, which has been making a daily round-trip between Kansas City and Lincoln, Neb. since last Armistice Day, has upped traffic 153% in two months. Pleased with the experiment, Burlington put its new Zephyr Twins in service last month between Chicago and the Twin Cities on a 6½-hr. schedule. Zephyr Twins average 66 m.p.h., cost no more to run than large automobiles. Now building for Burlington is another stainless-steel streamliner, to be called Mark Twain...
Grey-eyed, Brindle Gangster had already won three Australian championships before he was imported in 1932 by John Pesek, heavyweight wrestler of Ravenna, Neb. Since then he has won the Waterloo twice. Calm and well-mannered in the paddock, he has unsurpassed speed in the field, turns quickly, keeps his eyes on the rabbit, dives beautifully for the kill. Owner Pesek. who boasts the largest greyhound kennels (200 couple) and one of the finest pairs of cauliflower ears in the U. S., has refused $10,000 for Gangster...
Missouri hens laid certain eggs months and months ago. The eggs went to a packer in Omaha, Neb. who assembled crate after crate, culling eggs cracked in shipment. Frugally he separated the yolks and whites of the culls, loaded the yolks into 30-lb. cans, sold them to bakeries throughout the country...