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...benefit of their insight into contemporary problems. Students have participated actively in the affairs of North Adams in the attempt to better conditions there, and the first peace demonstration at Williams has proved a success. Most important, President Baxter has given a convincing demonstration of his educational liberalism throughout the year, culminating in the appointment of Dr. Lerner...
Scientists believe that continuous records of changes in the ionosphere will not only help to improve radio communication but may also yield vital information about the sun, about the nature of the upper atmosphere, and about earthly weather. Shifts in the ion layers occur constantly, and sometimes very rapidly, throughout the day and night, and are caused chiefly by changes in the intensity of the sun's radiation...
...habits. Book sales react automatically to Jackson's by no means low-brow judgments. He damned Hervey Allen's Action at Aquila, Charles Morgan's Sparkenbroke and Lloyd Douglas' Home for Christmas out of West Coast best-seller lists while they were doing well throughout the rest of the country. His one conspicuous failure was Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People. A full broadcast of dispraise was unavailing against Californian determination to win and influence...
...expects, will boost his profits. Fresh citron sells for 5? to 8? a lb.; after processing it brings 20? to 25?; retailers charge 39? to 45?. Mr. Hart will sell direct to West Coast grocers, will distribute nationally through Calavo Growers of California, cooperative wholesalers with 35 outlets throughout the U. S. Meanwhile, he is interesting food research groups. At present they are trying to prove that, besides fruitcakes, citron is good in salads and fruit cups, as cocktail decorations, as after-dinner "mints...
...years the homes of Guntersville. Ala. (pop. 5,000) have been lighted by electricity from the $198,000,000 Alabama Power Co., which serves 580 communities, more than 135,000 customers, throughout the State. Last year, Guntersville citizens, having decided they wanted TVA power, authorized Mayor E. H. Couch and City Attorney C. D. Scruggs to try to buy out Alabama Power's local distributing plant. The company would not sell. Messrs. Couch and Scruggs floated a $130,000 bond issue, broke ground for a municipal plant to distribute TVA power. The company, in turn, announced in a newspaper...