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...threw in the towel. In a stock swap, he turned over 317,077 shares (58% control) to Akron's General Tire & Rubber Co. for the equivalent of $63,400, or 20? a share. (Crosley stock, traded on the Curb, promptly fell nearly a point to 1½.) In partial payment of his $3 million loan, Crosley will keep $1.5 million worth of plant real estate, which he will lease back to the rubber company; the balance of the loan will be paid off with stock in a reorganized Crosley Motors...
...battle with the Japanese fleet, she ran on to a coral reef and stuck. But next time out, there began the thrill of the chase and the underseas tension that were the normal climate of the subs. As in all forms of combat, the best of training was only partial preparation for the first attack and counterattack. Moving in for the kill, lining up the first ene my ship in the sights, the torpedoes crashing into the sides of the target - those things made any crew jubilant. But then came the Japanese destroyers, the deep submersion, and the suspense...
Another daring approach to exam writing involves the general technique of shifting the burden of proof from yourself to the grader. For example, you are taking a science or math exam and have gotten hopelessly snarled in a morass of partially connected figures and equations. Yet you know that the grader knows perfectly well how to solve the problem, though integration and other forms of higher mathematics have always remained a complete mystery to you. So you circle what you think is the most significant group of figures you have derived and state in the margin that "the rest...
This is an example of a faculty counselor's report on a Bennington girl. This partial evaluation by OLIVER GARCEAU '33 is from an unpublished study compiled by the Student Personnel Office...
...make empty beds, and 18% make them mop floors. ¶ The chance of recovery from schizophrenia, commonest of the serious mental illnesses, has almost doubled in 25 years, the National Association for Mental Health reported. In a survey of New York State institutions, it found a recovery rate (partial and total) of 55%, against...