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Much of the success of all these efforts depends, of course, on the weather this winter. A severe cold spell will be a boon for makers of anti-freeze mixture...
...satisfy the desires of conservative business men (see Page 6, TAXATION). Not only will the income tax rates be lowered, thus freeing much money each year for investment in business instead of Government projects, but the anticipated repeal of many excise nuisance taxes should also prove a considerable boon to trade...
...President was congratulated. A delegation came to do it. Merchants and business men gathered round, told him that the law passed by the last Congress for the arbitration of business disputes was a boon to industry...
...find a friendly confident guide through the mazes of Widener would be a splendid boon to the incoming Freshman, and no less to busy upper classmen who have so little time to experiment on strange volumes. In his special field of study the student soon becomes competent to select authors for himself. In the departments of his "distribution" he is also possessed of some kind of compass. But unless his education has gone far beyond that of the average undergraduate all else is an uncharted sea. To have friendly access to a humanist who would pilot him past the shoals...
Christmas is primarily a boon for independent retailers and department stores, although chain-stores and mail-order firms benefit by it somewhat. The latter organizations are less subject to seasonal influences than department stores, particularly, who must "clean up" during the Christmas and spring seasons to carry large stocks over the long summer months...