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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Trade continued to expand, although money rates and retail prices proved stable. Production figures in several basic industries established new records and a distinct advance in wages was witnessed. But the speculative market for securities and staple commodities proved quiescent, with the declining tendency. No clear signs of general inflation are yet apparent and business men in general are exercising an admirable caution in regard to the future...
Connecticut as well as Massachusetts apparently faces the necessity of a state university. Yale has reached its maximum capacity and Wesleyan and Trinity are approaching that point. It has been suggested that the Connecticut Agricultural College may, under the state laws, expand into the arts field...
...Wireless Club. The talk, which will be illustrated by apparatus and demonstrations, will be practical and non-technical in character, and is aimed primarily to help men, interested in radio, who wish to learn about radio reception sets incorporating this type of circuit. It is meant to expand, in one particular field, other general lectures on radio given recently by Professor G. W. Pierce '99 at the New Lecture Hall...
...eight percent. From that peak they fell for two years, until in this August they were below four percent. Since then they have been rising, and it seems probable that they will tend to rise rather than to fall during the rest of 1922. If industry continues to expand during the early months of 1923, interest rates will probably advance. If they do advance in any marked degree in the early months of next year, that upward movement will probably foretell the turning point in the stock market. My personal opinion is that money rates will advance next year...
While facts and the voters do not often seem connected, perhaps people will have an eye to the government's purse strings at the polls this November. But perhaps also, if it is a toss-up between two candidates, the present office holder may win, if he can successfully expand his credit for his industry as a member of a Congress in which some five thousand bills were introduced, and three hundred enacted...