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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Participation has shot up over last year's levels in every winter sport except swimming, which showed a slight decline from 109 to 103 Competitors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOWELL LEADS LEAGUE IN HOUSE SPORTS RACE | 3/25/1938 | See Source »

There, the chief executive discovered that his awesome presence did not terrify Mr. Morgan into submission; quite on the other hand the latter refused to give any evidence to support his charges except during a formal Congressional investigation. The President thus opposed, responed by removing the opposition, and Mr. Morgan was relieved of his burdens of office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROOSEVELT IN CHECK | 3/25/1938 | See Source »

That raising rates is merely a palliative has long been the contention of almost everyone except railroad officers and investors. ICC's Carroll Miller took occasion to reiterate his favorite belief that nothing can save the roads from Government ownership except consolidation into a single unified national system. How Labor will take the scaling down of duplicate services is not hard to imagine. Burton K. Wheeler, chairman of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, reiterated his favorite belief that "some of the roads must go through the wringer." How banks and insurance companies, who are heavily interested in rail securities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Only a Palliative | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...Land, buildings, equipment and mineral properties, at cost (except for the inclusion of net revaluation increases by subsidiaries or their predecessors, prior to the organization of the present parent company, of $4,316,994.85 in mineral properties and $241,764.73 in other fixed assets) less reserves for depreciation, depletion and obsolescence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Simplicity for Employes | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

Harvard, which last year was undefeated at the sprint distances except for Navy, losing then by a third of a length, and which defeated Yale on the Thames River at New London in a record-breaking upstream race, has great prospects again this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ovation Greets Hutter as He Ends Harvard Tank Career | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

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