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...McDonald & Kahn Ltd.; Morrison-Knud-sen & Co.; J. F. Shea Co. and Pacific Bridge Co. Principal organizer of Six Companies and its president is William H. Wattis, 72, head of Utah Construction Co. With his older brother, Edmund Orson Wattis (Six Companies' vice president) he began work as a grader when the Union Pacific first pushed into Utah. Together the Wattis brothers built the Western Pacific from Salt Lake City to Oroville, Calif, (a $20,000,000 job), the Southern Pacific into Mexico, the American Falls Dam in Idaho, the Gibson Dam in Montana, the Guernsey Dam in Wyoming...
...Byrd, written by enthusiastic U. S. school children. Though no prize had been offered, the idea, suggested by the N. E. A., inspired some 40.000 youngsters to send in essays, drawings, illuminated scrolls, a model of the Admiral's City of New York carved in laundry soap. A 6th-grader wrote: "I am happy to have the opportunity to write to the man who explored the South Pole. I have seen the pictures of your adventures in the cold blizzards. ... In those pictures of your expeditions, I liked best where you dressed Igloo your dog, in that sweater and shoes...
Gilbert Smith, 13-year-old eighth grader of Somerville, N. J., got so interested in history class one day lately that he asked his teacher the following question...
...obtain the degree at the end of his third year, a student had to pass his courses with grades entitling him to graduation cum laude, that is with grade A or B in nine courses. Under the changed rules, two thirds instead of one half of a student's grader are required to be above D for an A.B. in four years, and the same standard of work is necessary for the degree in three years...