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More than 200 members of the Military Science department will strut their stuff on the soccer field at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon before government inspector Colonel Leroy P. Collins, Chief of Staff of this corps area, several deans, and the Overseer's Visiting Committee on Military Science. All members of the University are welcome...
...worth of beads and trinkets. In 1803, France's Louisiana Territory (827,987 sq. mi.) cost a monstrous $15,000,000. Last week the U. S. Supreme Court awarded Oregon's Klamath and Modoc Indians and the Yahooshin band of Snakes $5,313,347 for an area one six-thousandth the size of the Louisiana Territory, inhabited by one one-thousandth as many people as Manhattan now holds. Reason...
...principal object of the raid was not China's provisional capital, but the arsenal across the river at Hanyang. Although the arsenal was undamaged, a crowded circular area facing the Yangtze was destroyed at the cost of hundreds of lives. To Japan's aerial warriors the raid was in celebration of sacred Emperor Hirohito's 37th birthday...
Many months ago, before hostilities started in the Peiping area, the University sent a shipment of 1,500,000 library cards to the Yenching Institute in Peiping, China...
While the decision itself is an example of Government control of transportation, the Commission's reason for making it harks back to Adam Smith. The report pointed out that California is an area where millions travel by private automobile; that if only 7% to 8% of the motorists could be lured to train-&-bus service by its speed and cheapness, the volume of carrier traffic would be increased by 100%. Best possible stimulus to speed and cheapness, said the Commission, would be competition precisely of the sort Santa Fe will give Southern Pacific...