Survey shows job diversions on rise in large industries
A study by Francis Overpeck from Indiana State Teachers College of 127 large concerns finds 90 percent provide on site recreation rooms bowling alleys clubs and gymnasiums and 92 percent sponsor lectures motion pictures and concerts. Nearly one fifth maintain internal relations welfare or personnel departments. Some companies cooperate with Y M C A or Y W C A for programs and many fund city or community recreation directors.
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Terre Haute
Ind
United States
Francis Overpeck
East Chicago
Indiana State Teachers College
Overpeck
Y.M C. A
Y. W C
Monkey Solves Problem For Airport Manager
A pet Rhesus monkey helped Tulsa officials meet air commerce rules by removing birds nests from airport hangars. Monkey, given to Charles W. Short Jr., devoured nests, enabling compliance and securing a home for life. The note about ocean depth appears incidental.
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Tulsa
Okla
Charles W. Short
Bureau of Air Commerce
Short
Open Clinics for Sewing Machines in Illinois Reach Eighteen Counties
Clinics for aged and infirm sewing machines opened in Urbana Illinois and eighteen other counties this month. Owners repaired machines that wouldn t track straight or sounded like miniature threshing machines with guidance from Ralph R Parks University of Illinois extension specialist. Outfits dating up to fifty years old were given new life as part of the educational effort for housewives. The second item notes the conjoint board of the Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons requiring the whole class of 150 to retake an exam after access to a crib book was found.
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Urbana
Ins
Illinois
Ralph R. Parks
University of Illinois College of Agriculture
Board of
The
Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons
Fingerprinting Added To Scout Merit Badges
New York reports fingerprinting added as a merit badge topic in the Boy Scout program among over 100 subjects. First class Scouts must submit clear fingerprints on a standard card, name friction ridge surfaces, explain plain impressions, identify nine Henry pattern types, collect six types, and present five other fingerprints with civil identification data.
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New York
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Sir Edward Henry
Readers Warned Against Back Tracking Habit
SOUTHBRIDGE Mass. Dr Beitel cites four rules to improve reading without moving lips after a survey found only 25 percent of 3 000 persons read efficiently. Learn to recognize words instantly, take in more than one word at a glance, read left to right smoothly, read silently without murmurs or mumbles.
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Southbridge
Mass
R. J. Beitel
Harvard zoologist acquires 2000 sea specimens for museum
Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology adds more than 2,000 sea life specimens from about 150 species, including 30 possibly new to science, collected by Dr. Hubert L. Clark during a ten week West Coast tropical cruise. The haul features echinoderms such as toothpick urchins sun stars and a rare four armed red star.
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Cambridge, Mass
Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology
Hubert L. Clark
Mexico
Central America
South America
Clark
Animal Kingdom
Delicate Surgery Gives Boy Of 14 New Eyelids
Kenneth Donnelly a 14 year old of Sharbot Lake slept with his eyes closed for 13 years before Dr I N Armstrong grafted skin from his leg to form eyelids restoring eye closure The operation, a first in Canada, may let him see normally again in about three years
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Kingston
Ont
Kenneth Donnelly
Sharbot Lake
Kenneth
Canada
Navy slang keeps pace with progress
Navy slang evolves with a modern fleet as terms shorten and new jargon appears. Descriptions note can for destroyer, pigboat for submarine, battlewagon for battleship, black gang for engine room crew, boots for new recruits, and CinCus CN0 and other abbreviations.
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NAVY
Washington
Uncle Sam
Boots
U. S
Chief of Naval Operations
CN O
Secretary of the Navy
SecNav
Bureau of Ordnance
BuOrd
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
Bureau of Construction
Bu- Con
Desron
Desdiv
Battle Force
Batfor
Battle Force— Combatfor
Cardivtwo
South China
Comsonpat
Yangtze River
Panay
Comyangpat
Police Guard Denise At Church Dinner In Pasadena
A Pasadena woman phoned police asking for patrols to guard her home during church, recounting previous burglaries when her dinner was eaten. Two officers were assigned and she returned home to find dinner undisturbed.
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Pasadena
Calif
Someon
Esthonian Consul Lacks Countrymark Celebrates Independence
New Orleans Esthonian consul N. O. Pedrick felt like a man without a country. He planned a party for Estonia's twentieth independence anniversary but could not find native Esthonians to attend. Pedrick marked the holiday with a gathering for fellow consuls.
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New Orleans
N. O. Pedrick
Esthonia
Pedrick
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Mrs. Hooples
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U.S
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Third Ave. SE
Doan
Ees
Cari Oy
Bigelow Weavers
Bigelow
Smulekoff’s
Smulekoff
Armstrong
Third Avenue
Axminster
Smulekoffy’s
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