Word: excesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ripley of the Economics Department in an interview for the CRIMSON yesterday. "But really at bottom the trouble arises as a sequence of the Great War. The abnormal prices and profits stimulated the opening up of a great number of shafts,--with a productive capacity far in excess of the normal requirements of the country. These mines naturally give employment to an abnormal number of men,--an army of employees which can supply the country with coal when working but a fraction of each week. So many men are now trying to get a living on part-time employment that...
...electric stations to be constructed within the zone and all to be connected by high tension transmission lines. By 1930 if such a procedure were followed, the annual economies effected as a result of substituting a high-powered, highly efficient system for our present inefficient one would be in excess of $500,000,000 in addition to a yearly saving of 50,000,000 tons of coal...
...prime value. An education that enables the world to receive an unending supply of virile and independent thinking man-hood, that can stand as adamant against the self-seeking selfishness of some who try to control and dominate through corporate greed and of some who go to excess in the labor movement, is an invaluable asset to a nation...
...Taxation of the Corporate Excess of Interstate Corporation...
...year. In a humanitarian desire to reduce the number of foolhardy automobilists without having recourse to the undertaker, the CRIMSON wishes to supplement the publication of the route with the suggestion that no one should attempt to motor to Princeton who cannot start by Friday afternoon. The place for excess enthusiasm is in the Palmer Stadium, not on the Boston Post Road...