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...American Automobile Association, there are 1,000,000 people living in trailers. Most of these are constantly on the move. But many have settled down at one spot. The question thus arises: Is the trailer a taxable home or a nontaxable automobile accessory? Last week, in tiny Orchard Lake, Mich., the first court to study the question handed down an answer of tremendous importance to the rapidly growing horde of trailerfolk...
...time being shown the glories of the lady writer's new Park Avenue penthouse, famous in the eyes of its present possessor as the former home of Ivar Krueger, the match king. One of its more spectacular features was a glassed-in terrace in which grew an orchard of genuine peach trees. This season, Miss Ferber's first in the apartment, brought an unexpected bumper crop. Some could be used in a silver bowl on the piano, others sent in baskets to friends in hospitals. But this didn't take care of the largest portion of the yield. Miss Ferber...
...order to understand the position that a Graduate School of Engineering must occupy in the American educational orchard it is necessary to recognize the American university as a transplant from English soil (the college) upon which have been grafted the branches of certain graduate disciplines and professional schools native to Continental Europe. The tree of university education thus produced appears to have been well adapted to the American climate and soil and has flowered and borne fruit in abundance and variety. While attempts have been made in the past to include among these branches a professional school of Engineering, such...
Five years ago Britain's Anthropologist Sir Arthur Keith declared that Nature keeps her human orchard healthy by pruning, that war is her pruning hook...
...bridge of a steam tanker Captain Rieber sailed into Texaco in 1905, the company having bought the vessel he commanded. For four years he sailed for Texaco, was brought ashore to superintend the conversion of a peach orchard in Bayonne, N. J. into a great Texaco terminal. Today such a job would probably be given to a trained engineer. At that time it was given to Captain Rieber because he had horse sense, a command of men and the driving force of a triple-expansion engine...