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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most direct expression of what is happening to business is the amount of money earned by corporations. Last week corporate returns continued to be gloomy reading.* Another index is the rate of foreign trade. In March exports were valued at $374,000,000, against $489,900,000 a year ago; imports shrank from $383,800,000 to $300,000,000. Carloadings, a prime indication of the state of trade, were down to a weekly figure of 883,000 for March against 962,000 a year ago. This average, the poorest for March since 1924, found reflection in railroad earnings. Gross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: In Washington | 5/5/1930 | See Source »

...office. For instance, a man receiving a C at Midyear's must get an A or an E in the April examination in order to change his standing in the Dean's Office. This situation destroys, in a large measure, the value of the April records as an index of a student's progress, and relegates the examinations to a mere breaking up of the term's work and a routine check on reading...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEAD WEIGHT | 5/3/1930 | See Source »

...receiving end, Fincke will begin the game today. In the Colby engagement a tipped ball fractured Batchelder's index finger, an injury that will keep him out of action temporarily. Since Rex is also on the injured list with a similar injury. J. E. Sheldon '32 has been moved up from the seconds and will be ready...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: N. H. NINE HOPES TO AVENGE 1929 LOSS | 5/1/1930 | See Source »

...place and Bassett moved up to the lead-off position in the batting order. Wood and Ticknor also swapped places in the lineup. Ticknor replacing Wood in the clean-up position. Batchelder suffered a fractured finger in the seventh inning when a foul tip caught him on the index finger and he had to retire. HARVARD ab r h po a e Bassett, r.f. 5 2 2 1 0 0 Nugent, s.s. 5 1 3 3 1 0 McGrath, c.f. 5 1 1 1 0 0 Ticknor, l.f. 4 2 2 0 0 0 Lupien...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD SCORES 8 IN FIFTH TO WIN OVER COLBY 12 TO 8 | 4/30/1930 | See Source »

...months later it was down to 94.8%. In December it dropped to 91.9%, in January, to 90.2%. In February a gain of 1/10 of 1% was hailed as a "turning-of-the-corner." But for March, as revealed last week, employment had dropped down to 89.3%, lowest index since the Labor Department began to compile reports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Spring Slump | 4/28/1930 | See Source »

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