Word: papered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...charge of $8.50 for 14 meals a week is to be imposed upon the students in the new Houses. That means 60 cents a meal. Few undergraduates eat breakfasts costing 60 cents. Hence, as pointed out elsewhere in this paper, for all those students who cannot afford to waste money freely the charge amounts to a requirement that every single luncheon and dinner be eaten in the House. That is a requirement at once putting a violent check to the whole spirit of independence of choice at Harvard, and making freedom depend more than ever upon the amount of money...
...Great Seal. They could not use the seals of their own banks, sacred to commerce. But the smart Chicagoan secretary of the conference, Dr. Lichtenstein, had a watchcharm seal: "W. L." Pressing this upon a hot red splotch of wax, Mr. Lichtenstein* sealed with humorous pomposity a business paper more vital than many a treaty. In effect it is the blueprint design for a giant cash register through which Germany will pay some nine billion-dollars in Reparations over 58 years...
Winners & Losers. From a mass of rumors, little could be definitely learned about the course of individual fortunes. Paper losses of such stockholders as George Fisher Baker and Andrew William Mellon were estimated. On the other hand it was known that the State of New York had profited from the heavy transactions. A tax of 2¢ a share on no par stock and 2¢ per $100 of value on par stock, netted New York $4,884,427 in October. Thus can the state build better roads, broader bridges to bear the increasing traffic of U. S. prosperity...
...TIME, Nov. 4). Last week President Lee Wilder Maxwell announced that Farm & Fireside would have its face lifted and be given a new suit of clothes. Beginning with the February 1930 issue it will appear as The Country Home, with the same page size but with new type, new paper of high-grade magazine stock, new contents. Farm & Fireside (circulation: 1,354,000) is a farm magazine. Reincarnated it will be "a magazine of home, garden and farm...
...Suave, cultured, fond of clothes and horse-racing, Promoter Rice has long been the prime U. S. schemer. His latest efforts were centered in Boston where he ran the "Boston Curb," dealing in his own stocks, most famed of which were Idaho Copper and Columbia Emerald. Through his "financial" paper, The Iconoclast, he kept in touch with gullible yokels, advising them of activities within the companies and upon the "Curb." Faith-provoking methods of the Iconoclast were constant attacks upon margin trading, advice to buy sound New York Stock Exchange securities, instructions that widows and near-paupers keep their funds...