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...daughter should go to college. You could then easily show her that the number of colleges . . . that are likely to secure any of these benefits . . . can be counted on the fingers of one hand and are full already yet. Tell her the truth. The outlook for the collegian is poorer than...
...desperately in love?the more so as he was not at all sure how she felt about him. He found out when she went off to the U. S. with a sailor. When she came back to Paris, still with her sailor, with whom she quarreled and got poorer every day, Jacques found he still loved her. Her sailor was unfaithful; in revenge she offered herself to Jacques, but he wanted no marked-down bargain. Soon Florence died of a heart attack. Jacques, Dougherty and the sailor remembered their days of happiness with her, were glad they had been...
...worried Japanese Government. The price came to $150 a bale against an open market price of $178 for "crack double extra" (basic grade) silk on the National Raw Silk Exchange. E. Gerli & Co. have a year in which to distribute the silk. They expect to sell about half (the poorer grades) in Japan and the Orient, the better grades in the U. S. and Europe. Because it was understood that henceforth Japan will try to stabilize silk only by urging smaller production and because the visible supply was equal to only a three-month supply, raw silk merchants last week...
...investigation conducted here by Dr. O. Myking Mehus of the social science department of the Missouri State Teachers college. His survey shows that the students who take part in the most campus activities tend to receive the highest grades while those who participate in no activity get the poorer grades...
...foreclosed. The com-pany never made money, despite the fact that its directorate was a roster of "big names." Last week what had been long expected occurred. A receiver was appointed for $25,000,000-in-assets Atlantic Fruit & Sugar. Although its earnings are down because of poorer fruit prices, fewer passengers and less freight on the "Great White Fleet," United Fruit still remains supreme in its field. Last week it was apparent that United Fruit has lost none of the aggressive spirit which has so firmly entrenched it in Central America. In Honduras the company was building a rail...