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Secretary Adams was sympathetic to the offer but without authority to accept it. He hoped that Congress and the President would approve the conversion of the Olympia from a rust-sploshed hulk to a well-polished national memorial...
...total) is the making of tin-plate from which comes the familiar tin can. A tin can consists of about 98½% iron or steel and 1½% of tin-the tin being merely a coating or plate over the steel. Tin, contrary to common supposition, does not rust, corrode or tarnish. Tin is used by itself chiefly in tinfoil, used in wrapping chocolate bars, cigarets and similar products, and also in the manufacture of collapsible tubing, as in shaving-cream and toothpaste tubes. Tin can be hammered so thin that one pound of tin is enough...
...teams met at Mott Haven in 1901, the Harvard-Yale team winning 6-3. The series was not resumed until 1904. Then E. C. Rust '04 of Harvard and E. C. Clapp '04 of Yale were joint captains of a successful team, the only time the American collegians won in England. The score...
...least No. 1 Field Marshal. For though the Van Sweringens may handle the stocks and bonds, it is Mr. Bernet who has most to do with making the engines go and the cars follow them. In 1916 he took the Nickel Plate, commonly known as "a streak of rust," and quickly made it a sound and paying railway. In 1927 he was transferred to the Erie (not to be confused with the Wheeling & Lake Erie) and rapidly rehabilitated this over-capitalized dividend-passer. Last week was announced his appointment as president of both the Chesapeake & Ohio and the Pere Marquette...
Ninety-eight years ago Stephen Girard, the college founder, whose motto was "To rest is to rust," had died. Alumni, whenever they can, go back to Girard for Founder...