Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...income fell even further, from $476,200 to $297,603. The average U. S. private school and college, in other words, is losing money. That is because, unlike other businesses, private schools can rarely balance their budgets without outside help, and gifts to the average institution in the same period dipped from $156,992 to $29,945. First lesson Fund-Raiser Tamblyn hopes every school executive will derive from Now Is the Time is that if he wants his school to revive he had better start passing the hat. Second lesson is that he had better hire a professional...
...Industry's 400,000-odd workers, employment in the first eight months of the model-year 1936 fluctuated within a 7% range. This covered a period when automobile production fluctuated more than 100%, from a low of 217,000 cars in February to a high of 460,000 in April...
...course, this amazing stability did not carry over into the period of retooling. No scheme has yet been devised to bridge the employment crevasse of the annual shut-down in preparation for new models. The automobile worker regards it as inevitable and lays by savings to tide him over. In the last shut-down season there was no rise in the Detroit relief rolls, now down to less than 20,000. With shutdowns coming in late summer the regular layoff can be treated as something of a vacation. Formerly a worker got his payless "vacation" just before Christmas...
...both games Harvard had the better of the play, but in each case the winning break failed to materialize. Twice kicks by Jim Wood failed by inches, while the Yardlings going with the wind in the second period were all over the Jumbo cage without being able to get the ball...
Scoring in the second period, and following that with two more touchdowns in the third frame and one in the fourth period, the Eli cubs were superior throughout the game. It was not until the final few minutes when the Yale third stringers were in, that the Crimson was able to score...