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...Pennsylvania Turnpike has no curves to speak of; its almost imperceptible jogs could be taken without hazard at 90 m.p.h. For 70% of its way it is straight as a die; one 13-mile stretch marches as unwaveringly as a Roman road. Its steepest grade...
Loadstone to steel magnates and international industrial groups for many years has been 15,000,000,000 tons of iron ore (one of the largest known high-grade deposits in the world) pocketed away in the State of Minas Geraes. The Minas Geraes fields are within 200 miles of the coast and north of Brazil's great port, Rio de Janeiro. Coal for smelting is available in Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul. The Brazilian Government had dreamed of developing its steel industry independently, but, finding the financial burden too great, it offered the concession to the highest...
...corner, although it had hoped that $100,000 would be enough (but The New Yorker did not go through reorganization). Having failed with $1,500,000, Publisher Ingersoll hoped to turn the corner with $2,000,000 or $2,500,000. Best of all, PM still had a Grade A angel...
Transmitting over the heating pipes as formerly did the CRIMSON Network, with a frequency of 880 kilocycles and a total power output of 40 watts HARV proposes to present "high-grade entertainment for Harvard, M. I. T. and Radcliffe audiences." It was pointed out that the station is not the newest in the vicinity: "We were on the air before the CRIMSON Network...
...Joseph H. Beale prize, awarded to the student obtaining the highest grade in the examination in conflict of laws, was divided between John H. Maclay Jr.; of Dubuque, Ia.; and Marx Leva, of Selma, Ala., both of whom graduated from the Law School in June...