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...preparations for battle at El Alamein had been on a scale indicating an effort to retake all of conquered North Africa. They were also preparations for a new kind of battle in the desert...
...issue in Utah's election is Proposition No. 2, a referendum on post-depression's outstanding example of Stone Age economics: the most vindictive chain-store tax ever proposed. Not content with imposing a tax of $50 to $500 per store (on a graduated scale geared to the total number of stores owned by a chain all over the U.S.), the Utah bill also aims to embalm existing chains by putting additional taxes up to $5,000 on every new unit and on any old store expanded or relocated...
Surprisingly enough, Mrs. Pontico ate only about 50% more food than an ordinary person-which, in proportion to her size, was only about one-third as much as an average person eats. Obesity on the Pontico scale, says Willoughby, is no longer believed to be due directly to faulty glands, but rather to "those parts of the metabolic apparatus itself which have to do with the stimulation of appetite and the absorption of fat-forming food elements...
Doing things on a smaller scale, the H.D.C. president announced that in the fall production "Mashenka" seven girls would outnumber the five male characters. The show, besides its predominantly Radeliffe cast, has a Radcliffe director, Miss Phyllis Stohle...
Until 1926 PBH ran its own separate drive in which it attempted to collect $4000 from the student body. Soon the Student Council offered to do the actual canvassing, guaranteeing an average of $4000, later out to $3000. In 1936 a sliding scale was established which is still in force. Under this plan 45 per cent of the money collected in the actual drive is given...