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Well into its second year is SEC's investment trust investigation, the specimen under the microscope last week being Harrison Williams' Central States Electric Corp. (see below). SEC's findings to date have not been precisely flattering to investment trust management-which was not surprising in view of the fact that the investigation's prime purpose was to find out why investors lost upwards of $5,000,000,000 in investment trust securities during Depression. But in 1936 the trust managers demonstrated that they had learned a lot since they took off with ceiling zero...
...only serious problem encountered in the donation was that of transporation of the mass to Cambridge, an especially difficult task in view of the age, texture, and weight of the specimen...
Recently acquired from the Boston Society of National History, a rare specimen of rock, featuring intricate columnar jointing, will be on display in the Geologic Museum next week, according to Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology. The specimen, originally coming from Germany, weighs over four tons and is considered a valuable addition not only for its fossils, but also for its relation to American rocks of the same ages, its formation covering a period of roughly 1,250,000 years...
...scene was Winthrop House; the time was dinner; the chief character a cockroach. According to our informant he was a well fed and healthy-looking specimen, as yet unimpaired by his diet. When first observed he was ambling steadily across the tiled floor. One of the House scientists spotted him, gathered him up and inverted a glass over him in the center of the table, with the apparant intention of studying his life habits...
...long voyage to Peru, Father Gauguin died. His widow and her two children stayed in Peru four years before returning to France. After he had finished school, young Paul shipped as a sailor. Six years of the sea and the army whipped him into a tough physical specimen...