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...School has its drink (the 'lead shot': a fearful mixture of the sweetest and heaviest syrups of the soda fountain)." I am sorry to say that this drink seems to have gone the way of all popular drinks: here today and gone tomorrow. I have been in Exeter for several years, and I have as yet to meet such a drink, though I have met many fearful ones. For example: Welch grape juice in a milk shake, thus making their advertised "Purple...
...holystone had to be applied by hand. Petty officers sentenced flip seamen to this tedious work as a disciplinary measure. But last week the holystone passed out of U. S. Naval tradition. The new 10,000-ton treaty cruisers are being built as lightly as possible to carry the heaviest possible armament. Even the aluminum beams are whittled away wherever safety permits. The decks, made of expensive teakwood, are only 2 in. thick (compared to the 4-2-in. pine decks of U. S. Liners). Announced Secretary of the Navy Adams: "The use of holystones wears down the decks...
...Heaviest U. S. investments ($70,000,000) are in Honduras.* Besides the fruit companies, Tropical Timber Co., New York & Honduran Rosario Mining Co., West End Opetceca Mining Co., U. S. Continental Mines Co., Copper Consolidated and American Chicle Co. are extensive owners and operators in the country. Secretary Stimson quickly differentiated between "banditry" in Nicaragua and "revolution" in Honduras. He conferred with the Navy Department, had three big fast cruisers (Memphis, Marblehead and Trenton) despatched to Honduran ports to protect U. S. life and property. In the Navy orders, however, were specific instructions that U. S. forces should guard only...
...Stockmarket's rise and fall in 1929 produced speculative profits of $2,239,763,714 and losses of $661,733,366. In the "millionaire" class, stockmarket winners took a net profit of $92,000,000, losers a net loss of $48,000,000. Total net winnings and losings were heaviest in the $25,000-per-year income class...
Football was the only sport that paid for itself, having receipts of $693,713.10 and expenses of $126,661.77 which brought the surplus to $567,051.33. Crew was, as usual, the heaviest loser, going into the red for $34,233.75. The deficits of other sports are as follows; baseball, $8988,24; track, $28,355.66; hockey, $4,394.97. The total expenses for athletics, including minor sports, maintenance, and permanent improvements amounted...