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...Surprisingly good," said many a banker last week after inspecting the reports which told of U. S. Industry's struggle to eke profits out of Depression. Although the first half-year was marked by further profit shrinkage, the general tone of the reports indicated that most companies have the situation in hand, are busy effecting economies which will make profits bigger when business revives...
...Crimson nine made it two in a row this year over a powerful Pennsylvania aggregation when it duplicated its 3-1 victory of last month. Captain McGrath's triple and Wood's circuit clout provided the necessary punch to edge the solitary tally that the Quakers were able to eke out against the crafty delivery of the red-haired Harvard moundsman, MacHale...
Over the pulpit in the Little Christian Union Church of Halley's Bluff, Mo. hangs this motto: CHRISTIAN UNION WITHOUT CONTROVERSY. Yet because the pastor. Rev. James Alexander Brown, 67, could not eke out a living from his 75% of the Sunday collections and was obliged to preach occasionally in a rival church, the Christian Union congregation started a controversy which ended with Mr. Brown's resignation last December...
Both teams which will face off against Harvard tonight and Monday will be seeking revenge for the defeats they suffered at the hands of the Crimson earlier in the season. McGill was defeated in the Christmas vacation by the Harvard forces, who had all they could do to eke out a 3 to 2 victory from the sturdy Canadians. Since that time McGill has shown up increasingly better, and on Thursday last annexed the amateur championship of Canada by defeating the University of Toronto. Dartmouth was repulsed by the Harvard team last Saturday...
...Their grievance was specific, precisely stated. The mill owners had announced a 12½% wage cut. That would pare the average wage of each male Lancashire breadwinner from a pitiful 47 shillings ($11.08) weekly to a scandalous 41 shillings ($9.84). Sisters, wives and mothers, long since driven by necessity to eke out the family income by working in the mills, would get not 30 shillings ($7.20) but 27 shillings ($6.48), for a week's skilled labor with trained and nimble fingers...