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Samuel Mather was, of course, the peg for the laurel wreaths of the occasion. Gathered
Most important aspect of the drop was the decision by coppermen that they will henceforth allow the price to drift as it will, even if this means elimination of high-cost producers. The history of copper has been full of attempts to peg the price, and even 1929's lesson was not heeded. Late last year the leading producers decided to curtail production by 20%. They boosted the price from 9½ to 12½ within one week (TIME, Nov. 24). But although production has remained curtailed as agreed, demand has also ebbed. The biggest copper buyers - utilities...
...Pheidippides, who bore the news of the Battle of Marathon to Athens. Like many marathoners, Henigan, 39, has outraced his own youth. He has been a long distance runner for 20 years. He is frail, short, has brown hair and a pert expression which long ago gave journalists a peg to hang him on: "Smiling Jimmy." He was on the Olympic cross-country team of 1924 and the Olympic 10,000 metre team...
...Clim is only a peg, and a square one at that, through whose uneven peregrinations up and down the cribbage board of pre-War Russia you are made aware of the extent of the scene, the background vastness of Russian life. Clim never wanders far from Moscow nor from his self-interested, skeptical observer's viewpoint, but the scores of characters that throng the story come from many outskirts, are of every tinge of political conviction, agnosticism or despair. Clim's history winds through real events, from the coronation of the late Tsar through the Russo-Japanese...
Upshot of two and one-half hours of stimulating but sometimes diffuse conversation?for even the Sage of Adelphi Terrace can be unclear?is that the young lovers (Romney Brent and Peg Entwhistle) decide to risk it and become man and wife, and the one flesh...