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...Plow to Read is intended for a text-book and ought to be in use. It wd. debunk 80% of the idiocy in teaching literature in high-schools and colleges and 81 and one-fourth percent of literary journalists. Literary teaching and criticism ought to get the best stuff to the reader with the least interposition of second-hand yawp. crit/ic
General Aviation Corp. has an airplane factory near Baltimore. Also it owns about one-fourth of Western Air Express. Western Air Express and T. A. T. each own 47 1/2% of the big line named Transcontinental & Western...
...total population is 1,820 million. Asia contains 954 million, Europe 478 million, North America 162 million, South America 77 million, Africa 140 million, Australia & Polynesia 9 million. Cornell's astute Walter Francis Willcox estimates that the world's population in 1650 was 465 million, about one-fourth his present 1,820 million estimate...
...with an average of B or better as compared with 23.2 percent on year ago, 21 percent in 1930, and 21.4 percent in 1929. Of especial interest is the fact that all classes have shown an improvement, while in the past usually one class has done much better than the others. Not only are more than one-fourth of the upper class men now on the Dean's List, but the proportion who are approved candidates for honors is greater than in any previous year--38.1 percent as compared with 34.4 percent for last year. Also the percentage of students...
Total U. S. deaths in the air dropped from 237 in 1930 to 183 last year. The committee attributed the drop to a 30% decline in nonscheduled commercial flying. Nearly one-fourth of all accidents on scheduled airlines last year were traced to bad weather, followed by structural failure, pilots' errors, motor failure...