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Pike Bike. In Colorado Springs, George Butler satisfied an urge: he pushed a bicycle 14,109 feet up Pike's Peak, rode it down...
...same as under T. S. E. Wage rates are also the same. An undergraduate who, can study on the job gets 40 cents; if he can't study he receives ten cents more. Seniors and graduates are paid on a slightly higher scale, with paper-grading reaching a peak of 75 cents. The general purpose of both plans, beside helping students work their way through college, is to keep them from unhealthy night jobs in garages, and such; it gives them the advantage of working within the University and is better work experience...
Question was how long they could keep up this star performance. Normally the roads expect a breathing spell in November and December (see chart) to prepare for the next peak in January. But defense production knows no seasonal let downs. If the 1941 October peak proved a hummock, the December valley may prove a ditch. Last fortnight actual carloadings were higher than A.A.R.'s estimate for the first time in six weeks. Thus there may be no time for normal repairs...
...Defense, high wages, heavy taxes and strikes pushed steel profits up, down and sideways. Wheeling Steel (garbage cans, roofing, etc.) boosted third-quarter profits 16%, nine-month profits 99%. Bethlehem, which was a defense early bird and therefore reached its earnings peak last year, saw this quarter's profits slump from 1940's $12,462,000 to only...
...years past it has taken the Harlow-coached Crimson until the Yale game to reach the peak of its operating efficiency. This fall, however, Harvard "arrived" two weeks ahead of time, crumpling previously undefeated Army by a telling 20 to 6 count on Saturday...