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Personal vanity now accounts for only about one-fourth of a clipping bureau's revenue. Big Business supplies the rest. Constantly shifting, the current order of leading consumers is 1) broadcasting, 2) aviation, 3) theatre and cinema, 4) automobiles, 5) public utilities & trade associations...
Last week's announcement affected only one-fourth of all Federally-owned cotton. Not to be sold before July 31, 1933, announced the Farm Board, are its other 650,000 bales or the 2,100,000 bales owned by the American Cotton Cooperative Association, its debtor. In addition, the Department of Agriculture owns 365,155 bales of cotton accepted as collateral on defaulted seed loans, but does not intend to dispose of them "in the immediate future...
Schools of Commerce and Administration expect a "fair" percentage of students to get employment. About half of the teachers, about one-fourth of the electrical engineers, will find places. Industrial engineers, if they find work at all, will start off at $80 a month...
When he was in Manhattan last week Samuel Insull represented a tremendous industrial Empire in bad need of cash. Insulland has 13 million inhabitants, more than one-fourth of whom are customers. It employs 50,000 men. It is a conglomeration of over 150 companies. Before the difficulties of Mr. Insull's position were apparent, the securities of the Insull group had a total market value of over three billion dollars. In 1929 their combined earning power was set at a half-billion. Chief divisions of Insulland...
Although the survey is not strictly official, authorities in University Hall, and House masters take a deep interest in the problem of commuters, since they constitute one-fourth of the College enrollment...