Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Special meetings are scheduled to consider the President's suggestions. From previous comment, it seems likely that they will decline voluntarily to lower rates on the ground that it would result in severe losses which the railroads cannot now afford...
...Dean Watkins '24, right end 21 171 6.01 1/2 Shaw High, Cleveland Hagenbuckle '24, right end 21 170 5.09 Mount Vernon High Dooley '26, quarterback 19 170 5.08 1/2 St. Johns, Brooklyn Calder '24, left halfback 22 159 6.00 Shaw High, Cleveland Haws '24, right halfback 23 178 5.08 Lower Merion, Phil. Kelley '26, left halfback 20 167 5.11 Everett High Leavitt '25, fullback 20 174 5.11 Quincy High Bolles '25, right halfback 22 165 5.10 Barnard School, N. Y. C. Hall '25, right halfback 23 165 5.08 Erasmus High Loomis '26, right halfback 20 170 5.10 1/2 Oak Park...
Tickets for the Whiting Exposition went on sale at Amee's Bookstore yesterday. These are all for the gallery, the seats on the lower floor being reserved for students in the University who may attend the course without any charge. For others the tickets are $4 for the course of five lectures and $1 for a single ticket. The first concert will be held on November 7 in the Payne Concert Hall...
...principal American farm crops is interesting. On Oct. 1, 1923, this index was 27.3% higher than on the same day in 1922, and 25.6% higher than on the same day in 1921. It is true that the latest index figure, as of Oct. 1, 1923, is 11.3% lower than the average for the last 10 years, but it must be remembered that this ten-year average is partly based upon the tremendously inflated prices of the War period. In September, 1923, the index showed an increase of 2.2%. These figures illustrate a fallacy regarding American agriculture much commented upon lately...
...source, they had best leave well enough alone, however many shouting Magnus Johnsons may leap up in the wheat states. The Northern Pacific and Great Northern Railroads, two of the principal wheat carriers, are already in a shaky financial condition through unprofitable wheat traffic. That the results of lower rates are not viewed with pleasure is known by the fact that the common stock of these companies took a "paid drop of several points on the New York Stock Exchange when the President's proposal was noised abroad. There are members of the farm bloc, like Senators Brookhart...