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...bankers have frequently been criticised for failure to proclaim in loud tones that stock market inflation is hurting U, S. business by making credit rates high and borrowing expensive. If the Market is on the way to running over a steep cliff into the sea, why have not the bankers endeavored to cast out its speculative devils? One reason, say cynics, is that the brokers are excellent customers...
...ships are forever about Mr. Adams. At 62 he is greatest of U. S. amateur skippers. His eyes have wrinkles of sun and humor in their corners. His bald head and his face, with its Adams nose, beaked like a New England cliff, are tanned by salty weather. His hands are hard and veined; he wears no rings. His eyes are clear-water blue behind old-fashioned spectacles...
...building the dam in loneliness that he saw Carla, strapping, kindly village teacher. Paul wrote Claire extolling Carla, which brought Claire post-haste to the forest-river country. There was an amiable picnic on the bank of the swift-flowing Mistassini. Paul fell in. "And then, on the cliff, one woman said to another: 'Are you going with him?' The woman spoken to gazed wide-eyed-motionless- voiceless-and after a moment of tense waiting the other said: 'Then-I am!' " It was Carla who jumped. She and Paul were almost drowned, were sucked into...
...seems," O'Brien said, "that the guide, who took the pictures, which are to be shown on Sunday, was climbing an almost perpendicular cliff on the Aiguille du Dru, which rises 12,000 feet above the Mer de Glace, in company with a young guide and an American climber. This cliff has the longest sheer drop on the mountain--perhaps 1,000 feet. The older guide who ranked as the second best in Chamonix led the way while the two less experienced climbers followed. It was the duty of the younger guide to 'belay' the rope to a rock while...
...Brien in answer to a query about the dangers of mountain climbing and ski ascents remarked that the peak upon which the incident described above took place has received the reputation of being a bad one because of the long drop of the perpendicular cliff. The mountains which will be shown in the moving pictures are two of the best for the experienced climber. The Aiguille du Grepon is a massive rock structure that was not scaled until thirty years after the Matterhorn was conquered...