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...simple. Last year the U. S. mined 463,000 tons of lead, used up 512,000 tons, resulting in a 28% cut in accumulated stocks. Zinc stocks were cut no less than 87% during 1936, and by the end of February were down to 24,000 tons, barely a two-week's supply at the present rate of consumption (more than 50,000 tons per month). Nearly one-half of all U. S. zinc is used to galvanize iron and steel and another one-fourth goes into brass, which is a copper-zinc alloy. Storage batteries account for nearly...
During his coming two-week visit to Hollywood Jean Harlow announced she would be hostess to chief G-Man J, Edgar Hoover, who met her at the President's Birthday Ball in Washington, staged a machine-gun demonstration for her amusement...
Emerging from a two-week's layoff during examination period, the Varsity swimming and hockey teams will swing into action with a bang tonight and tomorrow night respectively when they face the Hanover Indians of the famous Dartmouth Winter Carnival...
...Mary's Press Agent Tom Foudy boasted that 500,000 people would watch the team this year. St. Mary's rooters boasted two special trains for their annual two-week $54,000 transcontinental junket. St. Mary's players boasted scarlet shirts with white shoulders, decorated with green harps, blood-red headguards, emerald-green silk trousers, royal-blue stockings. Fordham had nothing to boast about except one point-result of Andy Palau's place kick after a touchdown on his pass to Jacunski-that outweighed two St. Mary's field goals...
Despite these two absences, and that of Denmark's illustrious Atomist Niels Bohr, Harvard was scarcely more proud last week of its 300 years than of the distinguished company it had gathered to help celebrate that milestone. Summoned to the two-week Harvard Tercentenary Conference on Arts & Sciences were 2,500-odd savants, among whom 72 first-magnitude luminaries were to read papers. On hand were no less than 1 1 Nobel Prize-winners.* Purpose of this great galaxy of learning was to survey the present state of the physical, biological and social sciences and their impact...