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.
Tom Blake The inventor of the hollow surfboard, Tom Blake was born in 1902 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. At age 18, living in Detroit, Michigan, he met the gold medal Olympic swimmer Duke Kahanamoku.