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...University of Michigan, University of Oregon, scores of other institutions in the U. S. and abroad. Dr. Urey's first cost of $150 per gram has dropped to $15 (about $75,000 per gallon). Princeton makes pure D20, estimates the cost at only $5 per gram. Ninety-five percent pure heavy water is available commercially at $20 per gram...
Infantile paralysis, also called poliomyelitis, is caused by a virus which destroys muscle-controlling nerves, mostly in the spinal cord. Eighty percent of cases occur in children under ten years, 98% in children under 15 years. The U.S. contains 37,000,000 boys and girls under 15 years...
Results, as published by Dean C. S. Boucher of Chicago in the New York Times, have been most satisfactory. Students who took examinations without full time attendance turned in better records than the large body of those attending regularly. The first group had five percent more A's, twelve per cent more B's, six per cent fewer D's, and seven per cent fewer failures, than those who attended most classes...
...Intimately connected with this decision is the determination of Germany to continue its policy of discrimination against unlucky American holders of German securities. Though the rest of the world is to receive the stipulated interest payments on Dawes Plan bonds in full, Americans are to receive but seventy-five percent for their faith...
Furthermore, it was pointed out to the CRIMSON by some merchants that if a cooperative organization such as the Harvard Cooperative Society cannot offer higher dividends than seven and nine percent, and if the huge cash store of R. H. Macy & Company in New York cannot promise better than a six percent advantage over other department stores, is is not very likely that any one merchandising group like that in Harvard Square can offer a flat 10% discount on sales, particularly as these stores have to pay a return to the owner, a condition which the Harvard Cooperative Society does...