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...overcame parental doubts, took army aviation tests and found eyesight deficient in one minor point. His oculist, who had helped prepare army tests, advised special exercises for a year. Doggedly Hewitt exercised, satisfactorily passed, trained at March Field where about three-fifths of each crop is "washed out." He worked with Paul Mantz at United Airport, joyously signed three-year contract with China National Aviation Company...
...taken by present Great Northern security holders, the bankers would gladly underwrite the issue, thus assuring Mr. Kenney that he would have the money to pay off his maturing bonds on the dot. Considering the state of rail securities, the size of the issue and Great Northern's three-year deficit, the terms did not appear onerous-except to RFChairman Jesse Jones. Mr. Jones noted that on a when-issued basis the proposed bonds were already selling 8% above par. Evidently the public put a higher value on Great Northern's credit than did the bankers...
...proposal for a three-year college course, mot recently advocated by Dr. Drury of St. Paul's School, demands the serious consideration of President Conant. While, a graduate must grub for years to earn a self supporting income, as an undergraduate he usually wastes an appalling amount of time...
While he cannot change the situation which confronts the graduate, he can prepare the undergraduate for an earlier entry into the strife by utilizing the potentialities latent in the College. In other words, he can inaugurate next September a three-year course for qualified men who desire...
...Nobel Peace Prize for Soviet Foreign Commissar "Maxie" Litvinoff was urged last week by the Swedish association, Friends of the Soviet Union. Meanwhile Comrade Litvinoff's alert British-born wife, Ivy, won her three-year fight to get Dictator Stalin to order every Red Army soldier to learn "Basic English," a simplified vocabulary of 850 words in which it is supposed to be possible to express almost any thought. First English books to be read by Red Soldiers: Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver's Travels re-written in Basic...