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MOST POPULAR STOCKS of investors under the New York Stock Exchange's Monthly Investment Plan are (in order) Radio Corp. of America, Dow Chemical, General Motors, American Telephone & Telegraph, Standard Oil (NJ.) and General Electric. After nearly six months, M.I.P. has attracted $4,000,000 from 20,000 investors (67% men, 17% women, 16% joint accounts...
Citation: "A Princeton professor who took an open space of Texas and turned it into a campus . . . Even Texans are not indignant that he is not indigenous. He has Texas." put Princeton deep in the heart of Arthur T. Vanderbilt, Chief justice of the NJ. Supreme Court . . . LL.D...
When 100 physicians, nurses and public-health workers met in Atlantic City, NJ. half a century ago to found the National Tuberculosis Association, the "white plague" was the No. 1 cause of death in the U.S. Each year it killed 188 out of every 100,000 people. Though Robert Koch had isolated the bacillus, little was known about how it infected mankind, or why the disease pursued such various courses. There was no vaccination against it and no drug treatment; X rays for diagnosis were still primitive, and medical thinking was full of superstitions about "hereditary taint." The cure consisted...
...Behemoth Creature. Earthquake was Captain James B. McGovern, 32, of Elizabeth, NJ. He flew P-40s and Mustangs over China with Major General Claire Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force, knocked down four Jap planes. When Chennault formed his Civilian Air Transport (CAT) to help the Nationalists against the Red Chinese in China, Earthquake signed up. Once the transport he was flying was attacked by Chinese Communist fighters over the Shantung peninsula, but "they missed," Earthquake explained laconically. Later, flying gasoline to the hard-pressed Nationalists in Kunming, he made a forced landing on a river sandbar in Communist territory...
...chief was speechmaking in Trenton, NJ. when his dismissal was announced. He got the official word by telephone from Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams an hour later, and dutifully sat down in his hotel room to write the requested resignation. A new acting commissioner, Norman P. Mason, a Massachusetts lumber dealer, was named to head FHA before Hollyday's resignation reached Washington...