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...thinks, will do much buying this year. The railroads are already in excellent physical condition, owing to heavy purchases last year. The building industry will use large amounts of steel this year, yet less than it did in 1923. The demand for pipe he also considers bound to lag behind last year. Auto makers will use as much steel the first six months of 1924 as during the first half of 1923, but the last half of this year will see a drastic curtailment to about half...
...rather difficult to comment on Mr. Vanderlip's interesting statement that college journalism is the best extra-curriculum activity, except to point out that in his enthusiasm he has perhaps forgotten some of its drawbacks. For it must of necessity lag behind parchesi in the development of fighting qualities, and its training is apt to make a young man totally unfit to write triolets or sing to anything but a bassoon. Perhaps the only thing an undergraduate does learn from it is not to take himself seriously for he has great opportunity to see how flippantly everyone else takes...
...owners. Harry F. Sinclair, oil magnate. Racing interests recently acquired. Bought the Rancocas stud founded by the late Pierre Lorillard at Jobstown, N. J. His former champions: Purchase, Grey Lag, Cirrus, Mad Hatter...
...such a drowsy spirit that the listener is infected with the same mood. "Jupiter"--Bringer of Jollity" with its American ragtime rhythms would make a better ending than does. "Neptune--the Mystic". In a piece of fifty-five minutes' duration it is more than natural that the interest should lag toward the close; a little rearrangement would help materially...
...inevitable that in times of a general drop in prices, goods must be sold at a reduced profit or even at a loss, because the change in wages tends to lag behind the change of commodity rates. Hence the producer is forced to pay a higher wage than the lowered price of his commodity justifies. The only way to prevent this, is to keep prices up to the high level...