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...complicated athletic program requires not only the experience which an unchanging administration can supply, but also a considerable amount of system and organization. Too much policy and too much outside interference are admittedly bad, but to give athletic control to a continually changing group of undergraduates is the poorest solution for the problem. Mr. Tunis, in an article replete with dubious and inaccurate statements, paints an ideal which would supplement a few difficulties with many others far greater...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ATHLETIC DIRECTORS | 5/5/1931 | See Source »

Most important of companies to report their 1930 results last week was General Motors Corp. with earnings of $151,098,000 against $247,317,000 in 1929. Per share earnings were $3.25, of which $3.04 came from actual operating profits. The year's result was the poorest since 1925, when $107,070,000 was earned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Earnings | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

...farmer was complaining to a friend that his land was the poorest in Slovakia and would not even support a partridge. Up flew a partridge. Said the friend: "There's one partridge, anyhow." "And was it not flying away?'' said the farmer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sentimental Journey* | 12/29/1930 | See Source »

...against $489,900,000 a year ago; imports shrank from $383,800,000 to $300,000,000. Carloadings, a prime indication of the state of trade, were down to a weekly figure of 883,000 for March against 962,000 a year ago. This average, the poorest for March since 1924, found reflection in railroad earnings. Gross railroad income for February was down 10.11% from February 1929 while the $97,448,000 net was off 22.40% and was the worst result for February since 1918. Manufacturing production has fallen off so that the March figure (Electrical World statistics, 1923?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: In Washington | 5/5/1930 | See Source »

Anxiously awaited. First Quarter earnings statements last week began to appear in volume. Although it will be a long time before complete returns are in, and although, as often happens, the poorest statements may be the last, the following were indicative of what may be expected : Increases 1929 First* Quarter 1930 First* Quarter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Earnings: Apr. 28, 1930 | 4/28/1930 | See Source »

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