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...Passed a bill continuing the life of the National Screw Thread Commission. (Bill went to the Senate...
...House Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures last week had its day on the legislative calendar and presented one bill, a bill to continue the life of the National Screw Thread Commission. But it did not report the Britten metric standards bill, although hearings on the bill were begun Feb. 1. Congressman Fred Albert Britten is from Chicago. He is prominent in the House on naval affairs and it was he who was given credit for bringing the next Army-Navy foot ball game to his city. Incidentally his business is building construction, and that accounts for his introducing...
...heat. Burns is bracketed with Mittlesdorf, while Miller has Smith of M. I. T. and Bowman in his group. Houben and Leconey are in the same heat, and Hussey stands out in the last list of names. Murchison has not been listed, but should he run, and break the thread ahead of the other contenders, it will...
...baton was passed, as Holy Cross was more adept at this art. Watters managed to hold his rival about even, and Kane in a piece of fine running made up all but five yards of the distance between himself and his man, but could not quite breast the thread ahead...
...waterfall, roared in his ears; he heard a thudding step behind him; a thread brushed his chest- and someone was wrapping him in a blanket, thumping him on the back, telling him he had made it, had beaten Loucks by a yard after six miles. Third-100 yards behind-struggled Arthur Hillman of Maine, and behind him the gasping, wavering, dogged pack...