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...longer quasi-public but predominantly a rich man's college. Its students (3,938 enrolled this year) have since 1921 been obliged to pay a stiff tuition fee: from $85 to $130 per quarter, depending upon the school in which they are enrolled. Though it is their custom to affect corduroy trousers, lumberjack shirts and other unassuming gear, more than half own automobiles. Some fly their own planes: Stanford's airport, operated by the Daniel Guggenheim Aeronautic Laboratory, is one of the few college-owned fields in the U. S. and it is taxed to its capacity on big-game...
Tungsten is one of the hardest metals. Its melting point is high, 2,974° C. It is more lustrous than silver, nickel or chromium. Most important commercially is its resistance to corrosives. Only nitric acid and hot hydroxide solutions affect tungsten. Factories dealing with chemicals need just such a resistant to coat their pipes and pots...
...permanent character and location of such thoroughfares as parkways gives them particular importance, and makes necessary such a study as the proposed research into the ideal situation for parkway systems. Once established these systems involve the expenditure of millions of dollars of public funds and greatly affect the rate, direction, and character of the growth of our cities...
...Ford, Ltd. smell a rat, on hearing that Dr. Owen had been suspended as Director of the Oxford Institute. General Manager Smith called up Dr. Owen at his luxurious hotel in Cannes. Dr. Owen said that his suspension was due to a "personal quarrel" at Oxford and would not affect Ford, Ltd.'s nomination. Suspicion, during the next three weeks, built its nest around the Perfect Swindler. His letterheads and his clichés, it was noticed, were not quite like British officialdom's letterheads and cliches. By April 16, Dr. Owen was in the grasp of efficient...
...their results public. This second group has put no television apparatus on the market because 1) it might reflect discredit on them to offer for sale any product which had not been perfected to a reasonable degree, and more saliently 2) they do not know how television will affect their other interests, radio and talking pictures. The independents, though not organized, are doing all they can to publicize their products, get people to buy sets. Bitterly the radio makers protest statements like Mr. Replogle's about the imminence of television, accusing him of ruining their business...