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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...cannot take space for details regarding the services of ordinary competitive speculation. The manuals on economics explain them. Usually listed are the following: (1) Speculators create time values, carrying wheat over from a period of abundance to a period of scarcity; (2) Speculators level prices through the year, giving higher prices to farmers at harvest time, and lower prices to consumers later. (That this second point is not a matter of closet theory is abundantly shown by J. E. Pope, in an article in the Harvard Quarterly Journal of Economics of August, 1916). The speculator has failed...

Author: By Assistant PROFESSOR Of economics., | Title: SPECULATION IN GRAIN HAS SOME ADVANTAGES | 5/23/1917 | See Source »

...meeting for all men interested in this branch of the service will be held in the Cruft Laboratory at 7.30 o'clock. Captain C. E. Russell of the United States Signal Corps, who has been detailed by the Eastern Department to recruit a reserve battalion, will speak, and explain in full the plans made for the corps at the University. It is planned to have one course of classes on Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights especially for members of the University, while another group on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday evenings will be held primarily for men who are not members...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SIGNAL CORPS STARTS WORK | 5/7/1917 | See Source »

...interested in this branch of the service will be held in the Cruft Laboratory at 7.30 o'clock. Captain C. E. Russell of the United States Signal Corps, who has been detailed by the Eastern Department to recruit a reserve battalion of the Signal Corps, will speak and explain in full the plans made for the corps at the University. It is planned to have one course of classes on Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights, especially for members of the University, and another group on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday nights composed primarily of men outside the University. There will probably...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SIGNAL CORPS ACTIVE | 5/4/1917 | See Source »

...difficult to understand what Speaker Clark means when he talks of the "disgrace" of a selective draft for the army. He doesn't explain, and in all probability would not be able...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clark's Foolishness. | 4/27/1917 | See Source »

...meeting in the New Lecture Hall tonight Captain Bowen will explain the system of Federal Camps and answer the questions of those who are uncertain as to what is the best course to take. Men "who wish to know," and their name is legion, should attend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SAFEST COURSE. | 4/26/1917 | See Source »

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