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Nestled close against the broad steel beams of the Second Avenue Elevated at Pearl Street, is the dingy Victorian building of the New York Coffee & Sugar Exchange. There one-fourth of all the world's sugar changes hands and there, last week, a frantic little group of sugar traders had been caught short. To cover contracts of 25,000 tons for December delivery, the shorts could not find a bagful more than 8,000 tons. The tightest sugar squeeze in 20 years of trading had sent Exchange managers into daily meetings lasting long after dark. Reluctantly they had suspended...
While there is never any danger that graduate opinions will not be heard, it is right that they should receive consideration. There is little objection to having former football players as graduate members of the Committee on Regulation of Athletic Sports if the one-fourth representation is not exceeded. Yet the vital principle that Harvard exists for undergraduates and not for sentimental graduates is essential for the welfare of the University...
...Texas the corn crop was estimated at less than one-fourth of normal. Carloads of cattle too emaciated for slaughter were shipped to Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia for fattening. Other thousands were slaughtered for canning, but neither of these methods could take care of the numbers laid low by the drought. Cowboys rode out on the ranges, began shooting down starved animals at the rate of 1,000 head...
...find the happy teacher lately became the scientific quest of Assistant Director Robert Hoppock of National Occupational Conference. He asked groups of teachers if they were happy in their work, why or why not. One-fourth of the unhappy teachers had been so from youth when they had wanted to run away from home. Thirty per cent of them felt that their jobs made them do things that hurt their consciences, and 40% thought there was too much politics in school work. Happy teachers, on the other hand, were more religious, less troubled by conscience and politics. More of them...
...been receiving more and more attention since the last days of the Hoover Administration is the accent shifted to small manufactured goods-celluloid toys, rubber soled shoes crockery electric light bulbs. The U. S. is by far Japan's greatest market, but from the U. S. Japan imports one-fourth again as much as she sends...