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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bureau headquarters and D. O. I. men are encouraged to use the long distance telephone like grain speculators. Through this high-speed network Director Hoover began converging some 30 operatives on the scene of the crime. From Washington, Assistant Director Harold Nathan flew to Louisville to co-ordinate the search. Inspector H. H. Clegg sped from Washington to take care of the Nashville end of the investigation. From Chicago hurried one of the littlest and ablest crook snatchers in the service-Melvin Purvis. Just past 30, Bureau Chief Purvis, University of South Carolina Law School graduate, helped with the Federal...
...takes an appreciable time for the air pressure to equalize. A delay of as little as nine seconds may cause "buckling''-cars popping off the tracks. More serious in the long run is the wear & tear caused by cars crashing against each other. But in their desperate search for operating economies the railroads are running longer & longer trains. It is much cheaper to run one 150-car train than two of 75 cars, and to get the full benefits of Westinghouse's new brakes every car in a train must be equipped. Thus theoretically, because cars...
Photographic club members are engaged in a university-wide hunt, looking in all the odd corners and unused places of the many buildings which Harvard students frequent about the Square. The object of their search is simply this--a dark room where the cameramen may develop their many pictures. Suggestions will be gladly accepted...
...Superintendent of Schools in the small neighboring town of Geneva. Dorothy, the simple, beautiful model-daughter, makes a highly successful early marriage and edges into her comfortable niche in society, promising to blossom into a typically good mother and matron. Dark, mystic, ever dissatisfied Margaret ends her wild search for freedom and beauty as the mistress of a man who refuses to give up his wife and family. Bunny, the youngest and most completely free of them all, marries a fiery Communist and completes the exodus from the Ferguson home. Their children gone and Fred's life work...
...soap before he had a name,* William Lever had a registered name (Sunlight) before he had the soap. By 1888 he was breaking ground for Port Sunlight, the first of his countless adventures in "enlightened self-interest." The biggest was his Congo adventure into which, in his restless search for raw materials, he plunged in 1910. He acquired from Belgium millions of acres of palm-fertile jungle which the late great imperialist King Leopold II had opened for exploitation...