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...Genoa, Neb., high-school girls complained that their assembly room was chilly, whereupon the school authorities decreed that girls from the sixth grade up must wear skirts long enough to cover their knees, walking or sitting. Hazel O'Brien, 16, spunky, would have none of the rule. Relatives backed her and a legal action hung upon the school board's next move. Said one of Hazel O'Brien's less haughty schoolmates: "We'll look like the girls of the horse-and-buggy days. The boys will be drifting to other towns for dates...
...waited. Wide belts, slovenly, half full of cartridges, maintained contact between their sleazy trousers and torn cotton shirts. Rain began to fall, soddened their straw sombreros, shortened their tempers. Crouching behind dripping bushes, they waited on either side of the Cuernavaca-Mexico City road at a place where the grade is so steep as to make crawling upward in low gear the only possibility...
Quick. Suddenly the screech of brakes was heard far up the hill. One Hedley V. Quick, an employe of the Anglo-American Bank of Mexico City, was slithering down the grade, en route to Cuernavaca. So steep is the hill that Mr. Quick could not stop when commanded to halt by the bandits. Two shots ripped through his side curtains. Then, resourceful, Mr. Quick took his foot from the brake, plunged it down upon the gas. His car, bounding, lurching, sped down the hill. Half a mile farther on he met First-Secretary Arthur Bliss Lane...
...Consolidated Cigar Corp. last week sold $10,000,000 of ten-year notes. This is the result of its recent purchase of G. H. P. Cigar Co., a purchase which gives Consolidated Cigar "the largest production and sale of high grade cigars [10 cents and higher] in the world." The purchase also added G. H. P.'s El Producto brand to Consolidated Cigar's Dutch Masters, Harvester, El Sidelo, Mozart, Adlon...
Students concentrating in this field must select three courses in Chemistry, one course in Physics of a grade higher than Physics B (unless Physics B is passed with a grade of A or B) and two approved courses within the following subjects: Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Physics, Certain courses in other subjects which are related to the individual program may be approved...