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...president of the University of Illinois; H. K. Newburn. former president of the University of Oregon; T. R. McConnell, former chancellor of the University of Buffalo). But more important than its products, says Hancher, is the lesson that S.U.I, has taught-"that culture is not limited to the Eastern seaboard or to a social elite, that Iowa is no longer an isolated pioneer prairie state, but that we are in the stream of Western culture and civilization, and all that is good in it should be a part...
...highest percentage of centenarians is in parts of the country where the stress and strain of living are supposed to be greatest," e.g., along the Eastern seaboard from Boston to Charleston and along the Mississippi, and not in such havens for the aging as California or Florida...
...readjustments were still being made in many an industry. In the petroleum industry, sales have not come up to summer estimates. As a result of overproduction, wholesale gasoline prices skidded on the Gulf Coast and Eastern seaboard, and retail-gas wars were flaring up east of the Rockies. The Texas Railroad Commission (which controls the state's oil production) announced that it had cut August allowables to 2,721,104 barrels a day because of a drop in demand...
...June 30, 1953--the date of the last report to the Overseers, the University's largest comon stock holding at market value was $7,037,000 in Standard Oil Co. (N. J.). At that time, the school owned between two and four million dollars worth of Seaboard Airline Railroad R. F. Goodrich, Christian Securities, General Electric, North American Co., International Paper, Hartford Fire Insurance, and General Motors...
...long ago adopted the surname of the renowned Indian hunter and has long since extended its influence beyond the sons of the Connecticut Valley farmers. Now a national institution, it tends to draw most of its students from the upper-middle, suburban classes of the middle, western and seaboard cities...