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...market as a buyer of cash wheat. In a few minutes, this bit of gossip was exaggerated into a "report" that the Government would stop buying for 60 days. Although the Government denied the rumor a few a hours later, December wheat dropped 8? a bushel from its peak...
Bell Bows Out. James Ford Bell, 68, the "Dean of American Millers," bowed out as chairman of giant General Mills, Inc. (Gold Medal Flour, Wheaties, etc.). Bell helped found the company in 1928, was its president until he became chairman in 1934, steadily built the company sales to a peak of $379,032,427 in its last fiscal year. President Harry Bullis, 57, will move up into the chairmanship, and Executive Vice President Leslie N. Perrin, 61, will become president. "The old man" will keep in touch as chairman of a newly formed "committee on finance and technological progress...
Since the Club's first year, members have taken part in annual climbing jaunts up mountain peaks, across glaciers, and down erevices throughout the world. HMC representatives made up half the party which in 1936 reached the top of Nanda Devl, the highest peak yet scaled...
Unsuccessful stabs at conquering stratospheric crags have also found College participants out in full force. A peak in the Himalayas known only as "K2," but the second highest in the world, withstood all the efforts of Harvard mountaineers, in 1939, as it has all other aspiring climbers...
Most recent expedition to what the appetites of the Club's over upward-looking group of mountaineers was last summer's successful ascent of three-mile-high Mount St. Elias, in Alaska, the fourth highest peak in North America. On the same campaign the HMC's eight-man party under William L. Putnam '45, added twenty-one more first ascents to the Club's long list of accomplishments fifteen of them in four days of climbing...