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Where the Tennessee Valley consumer will pay $4.50 for 200 k.w.h. the same amount of power today costs $10.55 in Manhattan, $9.06 in Knoxville, $8.10 in Denver, $8 in Atlanta, $7.44 in Chicago, $6.85 in Washington. $5.80 in St. Louis, $3.05 in Tacoma, Wash, (municipal plant). T. V. A. hopes to spread its power to the valley's 220,000 farms, not 5% of which are electrified, eventually reducing rates even lower...
...Shanghai. Later the school was moved to Hangchow "to be out of range of foreign warships." Ostensibly all China's new Hawks will be Chinese piloted in any fighting which may take place. During the Shanghai battle at least one U. S. pilot, handsome Robert Short of Tacoma, Wash., took up a lone Boeing against six Japanese combat planes, killed one Japanese pilot and was shot down to death in flames (TIME...
...selection of House by the new Junior Fellows was also revealed yesterday. Garrett Birkhoff '32, of Cambridge, and F. M. Watkins, of Providence, Rhode Island, will live in Lowell House; Chambers will live in Eliot House; J. C. Miller, of Tacoma, Washington, will live in Leverett House; and B. F. Skinner, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, will live in John Winthrop House. The sixth Junior Fellow, Van O. Quine, of Akron, Ohio, is now abroad and has not yet selected his House...
Economy Publishers of Tacoma, Wash. received and read the manuscript "with ever increasing pleasure and admiration for the author. My! how your characters live and breathe and walk out into the room before one ... !" The concern agreed to publish the book for $375, returning 40% of all royalties to Lottie Perkins...
President Lowell announced last night the first five appointees to the new Society of Fellows. The initial group of men will form the nucleus of the "Junior Fellows" and assume their fellowships next fall. Those designated by the Corporation: Garrett Birkhoff '32 of Cambridge, John Chester Miller '30 of Tacoma, Washington, Willard Van Orman Quine, Oberlin '30, of Akron, Ohio, Burrhus Frederic Skinner, Hamilton '26, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Frederick Mundell Watkins '30, of Providence, Rhode Island. The three men from Harvard were graduated summa cum laude...