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...sudden rush of pigs to market would upset the hog-cart. In Iowa where 13 million hogs are born and fattened every year, the rise from June 1 to last week's average price made a difference of $40,000,000 figuring each hog at 240 Ib. Another boon to hog farmers has been the low price of corn. It is generally assumed by farmers that they can make money if they can sell their hogs at a hundredweight price ten times higher than the cost of a bushel of corn. Corn on the Iowa farm last week was selling...
...nominate Warren Gamaliel Harding after a midnight meeting in the Blackstone Hotel, there were no bustling headquarters of rival aspirants for candidacy. Onetime Senator Joseph I. France of Maryland kept a lone vigil with a pair of stenographers in a suite at the Congress, ridiculously hopeful of a boon which the party leaders downstairs on the mezzanine floor had not the slightest intention of bestowing upon him. Marshall Field & Co. displayed a collection of small elephants. Loop district street lights were decorated with the party symbol on bunting. But throughout the length & breadth of the city there...
...view of these unusual conditions the opening up of positions in the dining service next Fall would be a boon to the needy student. Undergraduates should be given positions in the kitchen and as bus-boys in the food tunnels. A thorough Student Council investigation has shown that 28 bus-boy positions are available, as well as six jobs in the three House kitchens. It is possible, that more positions may be opened at the Union, and probable that between one and two dozen additional waiters will be taken on at the Business School. In addition four or five student...
...unruly Afghanistan and behind its King Nadir Khan looms Soviet Russia. In the past year raids, riots, savage bloodletting and civil disturbance have burst forth alarmingly in the North-West Frontier territory. Therefore last week it was "raised to the status of a Governor's Province"-this British boon being conferred upon the dazzled natives with a show of might and riches calculated to arouse wholehearted fear and admiration for the British...
...declaring that he defends no particular technique. The little book was written to teach the fundamentals of practical skiing, and, in the way that Mr. Proctor describes the various styles, it is clear that he is a master-hand at all of them. His book should come as a boon to all ski-runners who still think that they have room for improvement...