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...dollar scrap iron and steel industry. Founded by Russian Jews who swarmed to the U. S. in the last century, it now supplies the steel industry with over 50% of its raw material. To finance large scrap dealers who have been unable to obtain adequate bank loans, Director General Benjamin Schwartz of the Institute of Scrap Iron & Steel last week sought $15,000,000 credits for his members from...
...final of the 400-metre run, Olympic equivalent of the quarter-mile, was the third race between Benjamin Bangs Eastman of Stanford, who made world's records for the quarter-mile and half-mile early this spring, and Bill Carr of Pine Bluff, Ark. and Pennsylvania University who had beaten Eastman in the Intercollegiates and again in the Olympic trials. This most intense personal rivalry of the entire Games was settled fairly and beyond doubt. At the staggered starting line, Eastman had No. 2 lane, a better position than Carr in No. 4. For the first time in an important...
...residential section, its wide tree-lined avenues running sedately north and south, its citizens moving soberly along them on Sunday mornings to Denver's many churches. Like most second-generation frontier towns, Denver is strongly moral. It has a stern respect for conventional art, religion, home, womanhood. When Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey, after brilliant service in the Juvenile Court, declared that scarcely 10% of Denver's high-school girls were virgins and campaigned nationally for Companionate Marriage, Denver cast him out, has all but forgotten him. Denverites like direct action. Last week six of them pledged half a million dollars...
...precedent although it breaks my heart to break TIME'S perfect record. In the issue of July 11, p. 20, under "Sports" appears the following sentence referring to Benjamin Bangs Eastman: ''He ran in sneakers." On the cover is a dramatic picture of that event showing the latter racing in spiked track shoes...
...instrument, a borrowed one, was improperly adjusted. Said Captain Blum: "We got off our course directly the race started and when we tried to put back, the wind shifted. This delayed us ... but we always knew where we were." One of the Curlew's crew, Attorney Benjamin Theeman, returned home by train. The others, after ramming and smashing a Newport wharf, successfully sailed the Curlew home to the Bronxonia Yacht Club...