Word: maining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This condition results from two main causes: our ship owners insist on a large profit, and our operating costs are greater. For the first there seems to be no remedy until more of our owners are willing to take the four, or five, or six percent profit with which Europeans are content, instead of usually insisting upon the ten or fifteen percent which the same capital would bring in certain other businesses. As regards the second evil--high operating expenses--the usual proposal is to offset them by some form of ship subsidy. But experience testifies that a subsidy...
...University wrestling team will meet the Boston Young Men's Christian Union mat-men at 8.15 this evening on the main floor of the Hemenway Gymnasium. The Union grapplers are a strong lot and defeated Cyclone Burns' feet M. I. T. team by the score of 14-9. Meyerson, the Union's captain, and amateur middleweight champion of New England, is an especially clever wrestler, but he will have stiff opposition in Cole, who wrestles in the 158-pound class. Captain Walker and Freedman are also expected to show up well for the Crimson. This will be Lockwood's first...
...other main speakers,--M. Maurice Gasenave, Economic Advisor to the French Delegation at the Washington Arms Conference, Signor Guiseppe Gentile, Economic Advisor to the Italian Delegation, and Dr. John Mez, Washington correspondent for the Frankforter Zeitung--addressed the audience in the order named...
...only vote on the questions but will choose their own subjects for discussion. Mass meetings will be held separately and in groups by all of the American colleges and discussions will be held similar to that at Faneuil Hall last night, the resolutions to be sent to the main office of the committee, where all the material will be condensed and divided into the main topics discussed. These will be collected in the form of testimonies and sent to President Harding. The individual resolutions passed upon last night will be sent on to Secretary Hughes at Washington...
...Haffner will be in the Main Drawing Room of Robinson Hall on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays to criticise the drafting done there...