LeTourneau University offered less grant aid to undergraduates than both the average private not-for-profit 4 year college in Texas and the average college in Texas. Similarly, fewer undergraduates took out federal student loans than the average private not-for-profit 4 year college in Texas, but more than the average college in Texas.
E.E. Hoag used these feathers to invent the first feather duster. Using a short broom stick and splitting the feathers with a pocket knife, the duster was found to be too stiff for use. In 1874, the Hoag Duster Company was founded, which became a pioneer of feather dusters in the U.S. state of Iowa.
The whole world certainly owes a lot to an African-American chef named George Crum, who invented what became one of the most popular snack foods in the world: the potato chip. Born as George Speck in 1822 in Saratoga Lake, New York, Crum was the son of a Native-American mother and an African-American father.