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North Carolina's Debit...
...liner's smartness, her éclat. If the 60,000-ton Oceanic begun by Princess Mary should appear on the seas the year after next and prove slower than the 50,000-ton Bremen, vexed White Star officials would have on their hands not an asset but a debit. Clearly the Bremen has started an international speed war between all lines. At Belfast last week potent Shipwrights Harland & Wolff understood that Baron Kylsant would demand that they build for the White Star Line not only the largest but the fastest liner in the world...
...debit side may be listed: superabundance in cobbles in the streets, newsboys with Back Bay accents. Dudley Street surface cars, Friday afternoon audiences at the Symphony, the South Station, Mechanics Hall, old Boston ladies, old Boston gentlemen, hot weather, cold weather, and a tendency towards pompousness. One may add that there are also other debits. But after the assets are balanced with the liabilities . . . one has . . . one has a collection of opinions and sentiments...
...array of opinions, particularly coming from a religious conference meeting in Evanston, Illinois, is as surprising as it is encouraging. In that one item on the credit side of the Nation's ledger which is thus substantiated, there may be greater significance than in all those on the debit side: and these range from "one burning alive and fourteen other lynchings" and "the Scopes prosecution and its revelation of American superstition and bigotry" to "the continued failure to enforce the prohibition law and the resultant demoralization," and "the retention of Wilbur and Kellogg in the Cabinet...
...trade had stopped there, the U.S. would have been an international creditor. But, respecting the movement of capital in loans and security purchases, the country took in only $387,000,000 and paid out $959,000,000, thus running a debit balance of $572,000,000. When this sum is balanced against the previous $360,000,000 credit, it is found that in 1924 this country was actually a debtor to the extent...