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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Harvey Bass, Jr., Joseph William Bex, Edwin Elberg Boysen, Curtis Antrim Bush, John Richard Christian, William West Cleveland, Jean England deValpine, George Worth Fowler Jr., John Sells Graettinger, John Peasise Graves, John Francis Harvey, James Sloane Higgins, Kenneth Day Johanson, Eugene Parr Johnson, Paul Sigurd Johrde, Walter Scott Long, Jr., Donald Frank McDonald, Thomas Herbert Malim, David Martin, Robert Glenn Martin, Arthur Taylor von Mehren, Robert Earl Middleton, Frank Gustavus Miller, Maynard Malcolm Miller, Duane Keith Ocheltree, Harold Clarence Passer, Dick S. Payne, Donald MacKonzie Pitcairn, Ralph Hubert Potter, James Allan Rafferty, Thomas Ben Ragland, Jr., Andrew Eliot Rice...
...there are a few traditional bits of advice worth passing on, if only for the sake of the record. Avoid blind dates at Radcliffe and that hideous building on Mt. Auburn St.; ignore resolutely the vultures outside Memorial Hall (except, of course, those offering the Crimson); and learn to sneer with fine Bostonian indifference when you meet the people who can always tell a Harvard man, etc., and who, convulsed, offer the simile: "As aloof as those men about to enter Harvard...
...pictures shown in its theatres, but all other countries are steady cinema customers of the U. S. India makes only 50% of its pictures, Japan only 35%, Italy, Yugoslavia, Mexico, Sweden and the South American countries all less than 10%. Playing this probability for perhaps more than it was worth, the Hollywood Reporter last week exulted: "U. S. Fix Stand To Capture 99% of World Market...
Today, no U. S. military or naval airman may go aloft without a parachute and the same rule is generally observed in Europe's air forces. Last year, while the world was busy at rearmament it spent generously on parachutes because a pilot is a fighting asset well worth saving even if his plane is lost. Now the world wants more chutes than ever, for war means wear, tear and crashes-high mortality for life savers...
...rail bonds, going at $2 and up, are unlikely to become worth 100 cents on the dollar with the best of war booms. But on the gamble that they would be worth something or that the Government might take over and pay 30-40? on the dollar, speculators dived in. The Dow-Jones average of rail bonds climbed 32.5%, the New Haven's defaulted 4½s of 1967 from 12 to 15⅞ (32.3%), Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific's 55 of 1975 from...