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Dean Gordon Jennings Laing, famed philologist, Professor of Latin at Chicago and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Literature: "No one has the ghost of a chance of being an effective teacher in any grade of school unless he has both a critical and constructive mind. Even though he be famous for the range of his erudition, though he be as full of information as an encyclopedia, as systematic in the organization and conduct of his courses as a railroad time table, yet if he is wholly without the urge to investigation and does nothing to stimulate scholarly...
...Guggenheim Process starts out with electric shovels, progresses through concrete tanks with 7,500-ton capacity to mechanical refrigeration and centrifugal driers. Like the Jackling copper process, it permits the use of much lower grade ores-as low as 8%, which is less than half the minimum required by the Shanks process. It cuts labor costs 75%, fuel costs 72%. It means that mass produc- tion has come to Chilean nitrate, that the Guggenheims are even more the masters of the show. For the new Chile Nitrate Co. into which the entire industry has been merged will use the Guggenheim...
What the Government does afford an Army Air Corps captain is a minimum basic pay of $2,000, a flying bonus of 50%, and to a single man maintenance of $696 yearly, totaling $3,696. The salary of the Navy's aviation lieutenants, senior grade (corresponding to the Army captain) is minimum basic pay of $2,400, a flying bonus of 50%, and single maintenance of $939, totaling $4,539. In both services, married men get bigger maintenance, old-timers receive slightly higher salaries. But transport pilots for huge airlines receive as much as $500 a month, equivalent...
...History of a Crime Against the Food Law. Specific charges: Fruits are dried by sulfur dioxide; maple sugar often contains 80% cane sugar: prunes often are glazed with glucose, a bacteria breeder: cider is often adulterated with benzoate of soda, as is catsup; jam may be made of low-grade fruit filled with gelatin and water; ice cream is sometimes made of starch and gelatin...
Baltimore citizens,wondered what Director Woodcock would do about their- and his-soaking Wet city. Speakeasies in Baltimore have run openly and in great numbers for years. Good domestic gin, most popular drink, sells for $1 per pint. Maryland moonshiners supply the city with a fair grade of whiskey while the best drug store rye (cut) can be freely obtained for $5 per pint. Good beer is to be had from Pennsylvania at 35 cents the glass. There is little or no homebrewing because the liquor market is too wide open. Chesapeake Bay shipping provides wealthy Vets with expensive foreign...