Word: presents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...permanent Treasurer of the Class of 1929, Alan Richardson Sweezy of Englewood, New Jersey, prepared at Exeter. He is at present president of the Harvard CRIMSON, secretary of the Student Council, and has been chairman of the Student Advisory Committee. Robeson Bailey of Philadelphia, who is the newly elected Poet, prepared at Hill and is president of the Advocate. He played on his Freshman basketball and tennis teams...
...last week seriously considered doing likewise in the U. S. Making such gas at the coal mines and distributing it by long pipes should be cheaper than shipping coal to homes and factories. Also, the convenience of such gas will enable small communities to have factories, will prevent the present rural drift to cities...
...called this reaction "corrective," "salutary," "reassuring." But the market's stubborn bears held it an omen of a real break to come. On the same day, Economist Virgil Jordan of the National Industrial Conference Board, spoke Spanish words at the Hotel Astor (Manhattan). He warned: "Prosperity in the present situation is rather a state of mind than a fact. ... It is an illusion created by extraordinary financial conditions, by exceptional activity in production of certain types of goods. . . ." These goods, he noted, included many luxuries, few necessities. He cited depression in industries producing food, clothing, coal, transportation...
...concerns are now making planes. But scarcely a score make 95% of the output. As happened with the automobile industry, some of the airplane leaders will fail, some of the others will grow big. There will be mergers. Airplane securities have an active sale. They are all speculative at present...
Unlimited however is the field for sport planes and flying boats. Flying boats (Fairchild, Loening and Sikorsky are the leading makers) are useful for getting to the harbors of large cities from outlying airports and suburban homes. At present they are too expensive for all but rich businessmen...