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...until Hancock died 16 years later did Harvard recover all its property. *Some Crimson-held blue chips in the 1950 portfolio: $3,000,000 of General Electric Co. (74,000 shares), more than $1,000,000 each of Union Carbide, Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey), American Telephone & Telegraph, Seaboard Oil, Texas Co., Texas Pacific Coal & Oil, Illinois Power, Niagara Mohawk, Ohio Edison...
Executives of Pierian have fallen short of their grandiose plans for this year. Only the spring concert on May 13 remains after tomorrow's performance. The spring tour was cancelled because of last minute scheduling complications. The tour in the past has included girl's colleges along the eastern seaboard...
...19th Century observer reported Inishmurray poteen flowing "extensively over the whole seaboard from Sligo to Bundoran and even to a considerable distance inland." In 1893, a detachment of Royal Irish constabulary was quartered there for revenue duty, but in later years, news of police visits usually reached King Michael in time for the great stone jugs of poteen to be hidden in the island's shallow lake. Once sentenced to pay a ?50 fine or spend six months in jail for poteen-making, King Michael said: "I would have paid ?10, but they would not make...
...there are two differences: 1) the temperature stays mild and steady (mean annual temperature 55° F.) along most of the U.S. soil range and 2) rainfall increases toward the seaboard where it is most needed. In Russia, the mean temperatures are much lower and rainfall is only moderately higher in the poor-soil areas of the north. In the U.S., climatic factors become more favorable as soil gets poorer; in the U.S.S.R. soil and climate become less favorable together. Agriculturally, Russia runs the wrong...
...friends told him at lunch that the great Canadian forest fires, which have caused smoke clouds over Boston and much of the Eastern seaboard for a week, were approaching nearby Chelsea. Firefighters were neded, they said, and were being paid handsomely...