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...moment, the industry is plagued by odd-cent price rises (e.g., candy bars have gone up to 6?), which have forced operators to either 1) continue selling for a nickel and absorb the rise themselves or 2) charge a dime and pack 4? change in with each bar. But the industry hopes to lick this problem with a machine that will make change for any coin...
...steel, the price barometer for the bulk of mass production, there was no rise, despite a $5-per-ton jump in scrap prices. On the basis of nine months' profits and this quarter's operations (90% of capacity), most steel companies could easily absorb the scrap increase, and will probably absorb other small cost increases as well...
...ever arrives. It is very probably this skimming off of much of Boston's dance money that is the cause for the incredibly small audiences seen in the Opera House since Monday. It is a sad fact, but an obvious one which Miss Chase and Mr. Smith ought to absorb, that no city in the United States except New York is likely to support two ballet companies running within hailing distance of one another...
...commuters are being informed in a letter from Watson's office that the vacancies exist, but warned at the same time that "the number is by no means adequate to absorb all who are obliged to commute...
...colleges, the Hall of Graduate Studies, and even the Divinity School, students wan and emaciated from meagre rations of sundry things on toast are able to augment their diets by guest appearances at eating places other than their own. By downing three dinners in as many halls, they absorb the equivalent of a normal, pre-meat-shortage meal...