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...Institute of Geographical Exploration, son of the dean of the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge. Mass., trekked into Valdez, Alaska with news that on July 9, he and his friend Robert H. Bates of Philadelphia had reached the top of iy,150-ft. Mt. Lucania, highest unclimbed peak in North America...
...their oil lands, Peter and his friends start a pipe line to the refinery. The railroad's strong-arm gang, headed by Peter's loud-mouthed neighbor, Red Scanlon (Charles Bickford), tries to break the line, buy out the land it crosses. The conflict reaches its peak in a magnificent free-for-all when, racing to put down the last three miles of line before their contract expires, the oilmen farmers are attacked by Red's gang on a rock-bluff. Aided by a carnival troupe complete with elephants, which has been summoned by Sally who knows...
...profits up from $1,474,000 to $2,811,000.- C, Sharing the paperboard industry s record business in the first half of 1937. Walter Paul Paepcke's Container Corp. made more money than in any six-month period in the company's history. After the spring peak the paperboard business slumped badly, is currently in the doldrums...
...cotton exports have dropped steadily from an average of 8,300,000 bales a year between 1924 and 1929 to 6,000,000 bales last year and about 5,500,000 in the current cotton year. However, AAA short crops helped cut the annual carry-over from a towering peak of 9,580,000 bales to 5,324,000 bales at the end of the last cotton year. The estimated carryover this year will be down to 4,400,000. As last week cotton's crucial season was just beginning, these estimates had little effect on cotton...
Explanation; Fm vechicular flow on Main St.; for "peak hour"; Fc=ditto on Cross St.;Lm=left turns from Main St.;Lc= ditto from Cross St.;Pm= pedestrian flow across Main St.; rc = ditto across Cross St -Wm= Width of Mam St.; W. -width of Cross St; Sh -average speed of vehicles going faster than critical approach speed; So critical approach Speed K = derived constant; Wk -standard width of roadway; A = arbitrary values for special conditions; IR = composite intersection rating...