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Dirigibles. For non-stop schedules to Japan, Australia, South America and Africa, the report recommends the economic superiority of helium-filled dirigibles carrying 200 passengers, estimates their cost at $4,000,000 each. Of their safety it says, "While their size makes them vulnerable in high winds when making ground contacts (which are no hardship whatever to airplanes-rather, an advantage), nevertheless, the impossibility of slowing an airplane down brings with it a certain element of risk not present in the dirigible...
...industry, the costs of venereal disease are tremendous. It has been estimated that from 8,000,000 to 10,000,000 workers lose 21,000,000 working days each year at an average cost of $4 per day, as a result of infection with these conditions. "Even 50 years ago . . . the diseases were often considered incurable. . . . To-day scientific medicine, combining its efforts with those of public health officials, is beginning an organized, sustained campaign against the venereal diseases, a campaign in which the public is participating on a tremendous scale. Throughout the country, women's clubs, the junior...
...disintegrating in the tub, inferior materials cost laundrymen some $6,000,000 a year; dry-cleaners some $16,000,000. And even the best rayon must be washed and ironed differently from silks if it is not to be injured. Women's clubs as long ago as 1920 were abuzz over the matter and in 1921 the General Federation of Women's Clubs adopted a truth-in-fabrics resolution. Last year the New York City Federation of Women's Clubs, through a committee headed by Miss Jaffray, sent a petition to Washington demanding that all goods have...
...report showed that Frank Kolbe had liquidated his holdings in the syndicate on Sept. 13 by selling several batches of securities, including 253,813 shares of Alleghany common which cost him $507,626 last April. To finance this hefty purchase he had borrowed $300,000 when Alleghany was selling at $4.50 a share and there were high hopes that the system's ponderous corporate superstructure could be simplified. Since May, however, Alleghany common has fallen as low as $1 and simplification plans have bogged down in a morass of counterproposals, Senatorial investigations and court injunctions. Under such circumstances...
Tickets will cost $1.50 a couple and $1.25 for stags. The comparatively high rate for stags has been set in an effort to encourage all students to bring partners according to Marvin. Don Gahan and his orchestra will supply the music...