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...Expansion. Large among independent telephone companies is Tri-State Telephone & Telegraph Co., operating without competition in St. Paul and 140 other communities in Minnesota and the Dakotas. Yet last week Tri-State went the way of most independent telephone companies, completed a deal whereby it will be acquired by A. T. & T. through Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. Tri-State has $28,151,000 assets, last year earned $1,389,000. It is closely held, control reputedly resting with Theodore Gary & Co. of Kansas City. After this deal (largest in recent years), A. T. & T. will have...
...that proves we are standing still." No mere disturber, no second-rate competitor disgruntled over his own failures uttered those words last week at Langley Field. Va. It was William Bushnell Stout, vice president (to President Edsel Bryant Ford) of Stout Metal Airplane Co., builders of Ford tri-motor all-metal transports. His listeners. 200 manufacturers and engineers and Government air service officials, were assembled to view the year's accomplishments of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. U. S.-supported research body. Mr. Stout saw hope for the becalmed market in private-use planes: ''Things...
...begin the study of a language. Practiced pedagogy, small classes, and the secondary school function of mental training rather than mental stimulation, all point to the high school as the logical and only place for elementary instruction. To force the school to recognize this function, Harvard, if it wants tri-lingual graduates, must demand trilingual ability from its candidates for entrance. Admission to Harvard, then, should depend on Latin or Greek and three or four years' work in modern language, or, for an S.B. candidate, on a combination of any two of the four major continental tongues including at least...
...Barlow's plan. First express toll road in the U. S. was the Long Island Motor Parkway (TIME, Sept. 16). Four years ago highway officials of Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana began to plan a tri-state motorway, 200 ft. wide, from Milwaukee, around the outskirts of Chicago, Hammond and Gary to the Michigan line. Of the 185 miles of right-of-way necessary for this toll road, 150 have been donated or leased. Last year plans were announced for a 25-mile elevated pavement for express motor travel over Grand Trunk R. R. tracks between Detroit and Pontiac, Mich. (TIME...
Henry Holiday Timken Jr., Harvard senior, son of the roller bearing maker, took his first flight in a $70,000 Ford tri-motor plane, the gift of his father...