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Beneath this surface tranquillity, most frequently manifest in competitive bids which, when opened, turn out to be identical down to the last decimal, there has lately been distressing agitation. To get business from their big customers, steel companies have had to shade their published price lists. In theory, all customers have paid the same price per ton of steel, irrespective of the size of the order. In practice, big buyers like the automobile companies have beaten down quotations as much as $8 per ton.* Last week in an attempt to waft away the dense cigar smoke that envelops this practice...
...representatives-Purdue and Indiana University. Last autumn when the Conference season started, it looked as if these two and five others-Northwestern, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa and Ohio State -were all about evenly matched. By last week, when the season drew to a close, it was once more manifest that "Hoosier" basketballers play their best for "Hoosier" schools. Indiana finished after winning eleven games, losing one. The only other teams that had a chance of getting through with less than five defeats were Purdue, which needed only a victory over Michigan to tie Indiana's record, and Michigan, which...
...Caribbean. With a terminal only 92 miles from Havana by car ferry, the Key West Extension was to provide all-rail communication to the Island Republic, and Key West was to become a great port of entry for Central and South American trade. Built in the twilight of Manifest Destiny, the Key West Extension was started in 1905 after Mr. Flagler gave his engineers the legendary order: "Go to Key West!" It was one of the most famed engineering achievements of its day. Every inch was built not by contractors but by the railroad itself. Novels were written around...
Professor Hopper is an example of the improvement which is manifest when a lecturer concerns himself with the presentation of his material as well as with its profundity...
...poor strategist. He made the mistake of entrenching part of his troops. Under the pounding of Italian guns they fell back slowly at first, finally broke and ran. Unsupported by eye witnesses, Italians exultingly claimed that they had killed 5,000 Ethiopians, advanced 142 miles in six days-a manifest impossibility for an army in Ethiopia, though scouting tanks may have done so unopposed...