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...octane (100% antiknock) fuel was a $30-a-gallon laboratory freak; now it runs about 13,000,000 barrels annually. The industry has steadily added to reserve stocks, last fortnight had 7,772,000 barrels socked away, highest ever, and 40% above a year ago. Yet a shortage loomed. Chief reason: the huge, unexpected demands of the U.S.S.R.. which has little high-octane refining capacity of its own. Already the Russians have bought thousands of barrels of U.S. aviation gas, may soon want thousands more...
Many a curiously bent tree growing in the Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes region is no mere freak of nature. It is the handwork of long-dead Indians. In the July Scientific Monthly Geologist Raymond E. Janssen of Evanston, Ill. tells how he settled the puzzle of the crooked trees for which he could find no scientific explanation anywhere. He ran across a few historical references which indicated that "trees were sometimes bent by the Indians to mark trails through the forests." Several summers of study convinced Janssen that the deformed trees are surviving guideposts...
...consistent record breaking of 23-year-old Les Steers has made track fans blink. A broad-shouldered, slim-hipped six-footer. Steers has been a jumping freak since he was so high. As a ten-year-old Palo Alto schoolboy, he cleared the bar at 5 ft. 4 in. Spotted by Stanford's star-eyed Track Coach Dink Templeton, the little jumping jack had his style changed from the childish scissors to the Western roll (going over parallel with the bar). By the time he was an eighth-grader, young Steers could jump 6 ft. 2 in., competed with...
Providing that the hitting and fielding splurge of last Wednesday was not merely a freak, but a real indication of an improvement, Harvard may end up in a good position in the league, and will have a 50-50 chance to clean up in the remainder of the season. To do this, they will have a reliable, steady fielder on third base in the person of veteran Gil Whittemore, and an outstanding Sophomore in Bart Harvey, to start with...
Birmingham is almost a T. C. I. creation. When General Sherman marched to the sea, Birmingham was part cornfield, part foul-smelling swamp. In the '70s some damyankee speculators swooped down, began exploiting the rich, freak coal, iron and limestone deposits. Called "The Magic City," Birmingham spent its youth in filth, poverty, lawlessness. At one time it was called The Murder Capital of the World. When control of T. C. I. switched to U. S. Steel in 1907, Birmingham began to grow up. Slowly, painfully, the town spread out, cleaned up. Bursting with faith in the city...