Word: beene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In Harvard dormitories, on the day of the Harvard-Yale football game, staff members of The Yale Record, undergraduate funnypaper, planted a spurious edition of The Harvard Crimson, undergraduate daily. Alarmed Harvard-men read that President James Bryant Conant had resigned, would be replaced by Yaleman Robert Maynard Hutchins, president...
Stretching for six blocks along Chicago's West Side are the seven dirty red brick buildings and the one clean yellow brick building of "Misery Harbor" (Cook County Hospital)-largest general hospital in the world. Through the gates of the hospital pour 135,000 charity patients every year, for...
> Steel, No. 1 U. S. industry (which weights no less than 18% on the Federal Reserve Board's Index of Production), has been running at 93.9% of capacity, well ahead of consumption, but the temperamentally optimistic Iron Age reported that orders for early 1940 production would account for only...
> Last week, the Department of Labor's all-commodity index, whose war-boom peak had been 79.5, slid to 79.1. The New York Journal of Commerce's more sensitive index (autumn peak: 82.4) was down to 80.9.
> A supplementary SEC report on insiders' stock trading showed that one of General Motors' unbeatable Fisher Brothers, Lawrence P., sold no less than 11,000 shares of G. M. in September, when the market was higher than it has been since. From G. M. itself also came a...