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Engineers from Stone & Webster were called in. They prescribed complete electrification, the construction of six large central breakers. They said $30,000,000 would be needed and compiled a table showing that if the work had been done six years before, PRC's profits, after interest charges on the new money, would have averaged $1,525,000 a year instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Hard Hard Coal | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

...Webster '93, assistant professor of English, is also in Oxford now, it was learned. He is spending the first half-year abroad on leave of absence, and is now the guest of the Gilbert Murrays. Mr. Murray, the distinguished English translator and critic, was the first incumbent of the Norton Chair at Harvard five years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOWES DELIVERS FIRST OF LECTURES AT OXFORD | 11/1/1930 | See Source »

...summary follows: JUNIORS SENIORS Siverware, l.e. r.e., Vaughn, Donelson Edwards, l.t. r.t., Webster Gaul, l.g. r.g., Sibley Hale, c. c., Brown, Worthem Williams, r.g. l.g., D'Annunsio Cowin, r.t. l.t., Snelling, Thorndike Farlow, r.e. l.e., Tryon Archibald, q.b. q.b., Ketchum Weir, Baskerville, l.h.b. l.h.b.,Byer, Sharkey Murphy, r.h.b. r.h.b., Nyhoff Crosby, f.b. f.b., Serinoi

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SENIORS FIGHT JUNIORS TO TIE ON MUDDY FIELD | 10/30/1930 | See Source »

Eight publications on Dartmouth College will be exhibited today and tomorrow in the Treasure room at Widener Library. Among the eight exhibits is an old pamphlet containing an oration delivered by Daniel Webster at the Twenty Fourth Anniversary of American Independence, July 4, 1800. Another pamphlet written by Eleazor Wheelock describing activities at the college when it was an Indian charity school is in the exhibition. Other publications on display are two volumes of the first issues of "The Dartmouth" and a copy of "The Famous Dartmouth College Case...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DARTMOUTH PUBLICATIONS ON EXHIBIT IN TREASURE ROOM | 10/24/1930 | See Source »

...your bold and frank statement of a situation which has been repeated at several Legion Conventions that I know of all in fact. Of course you fellows are not "patriotic" and your injudicious statement may mean a good "jacking up" but it is worth it. G. T. Coffin. Webster...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: It Is Worth It | 10/21/1930 | See Source »

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