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Perhaps when the spring thaw comes, the Sunday rotogravure section will show the blithesome Columbia crew frolicking about the float like male Pavlowa's, while leading the aesthetic dare a Follies girl in front-page-cover-in Judge costume beckons...
...setting up the 5-5-3 ratio as a means to this end. Now Secretary Wilbur proposes to make this ratio end itself. As he interprets it, so long as the United States, Great Britain, and Japan keep to the ratio, the merry race to see which can float the most tons of steel can go or ad infinitum. It has evidently not occurred to him that competitive building is useless unless it confers an advantage upon numbers. To continue to build when an established ratio makes certain that one nation will be relatively no stronger at the end than...
Spargo demanded that the Soviet go bankrupt honestly as Austria did; that it meet its creditors in good faith, float a loan, win the world's confidence...
...combined committee of the Tokyo "Klan" (IronHearted Brethren, Black Dragons and the Death Penalty Club) were "aroused" when they heard that the Daito Electric Co. (Tokyo) was planning to float a loan...
...Farge's "The Incompleat Angler", is an example of the same class. Mr. La Farge writes refreshingly and well, with a gift for impressions and a skill of style which are unusual. "For reflection (he says) is to the true, inward charm of fishing as the vague ideas that float half-recorded through one's brain when good music is playing are to that music itself"--an admirable simile...