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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...competition assumes no previous photographic experience, although in the first week or two, familiarity with photographic methods will be a slight advantage. The CRIMSON owns two Graflex cameras, and it is with these that most of the pictures are taken, though in recent years several miniature cameras have shown their adaptability to news work. The competition aims chiefly at giving a thorough training in the fundamentals of photographic technique and developing the ability to recognize the news value of university activities...
...Lieutenant Colonel and one Major found stolid, grey-thatched Captain Ralph E. Fleischer guilty of violating three Articles of War. Because he embezzled from the U. S. Army icebox two chickens, pickles, assorted vegetables, two slabs of cheese and other victuals; because he gave false answers at a previous investigation; and because he bullied enlisted men and made them "keep their mouths shut," his senior officers sentenced this Quartermaster Corps captain to dismissal from the service. Pending review of his case by the War Department, Captain Fleischer remained under technical arrest at Fort...
Oils- Texas Corp., biggest of the so-called "independent" U. S. oil companies, last week reported 1935 sales of $295,000,000, a 10% increase over the previous year. But Texaco's profits more than tripled, increasing from $5,545,000 in 1934 to $17,065,000 in 1935. Higher prices, fewer gasoline wars, tighter control over production and record oil consumption helped Texaco as well as the rest of the industry. Shell Union Oil, U. S. affiliate of Sir Henri Deterding's Royal Dutch-Shell and the only company besides Texaco that distributes in every state...
...more than in 1934. But benefiting from its famed "polymerization" process, which converts into high-grade motor fuels waste gases and refinery products hitherto lost or used in inferior products (TIME, Sept. 2), Phillips made $13,400,000 as against $5,757,000 in the previous year...
...with the 64th annual report published last fortnight by Ward's President Sewell Lee Avery. Sears showed net sales of $392,000,000, up 23% from the year before. Ward's sales of $293,000,000 were the highest in its history, yet the gain from the previous twelve-month period was only 17%. Sears reported profits of $21,500,000, a 43% increase. On this item Ward did better than Sears, showing a 47% gain from the $9,161,000 profit in fiscal 1935 to the $13,527,000 for fiscal...