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Dates: during 1930-1939
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University Hall announced yesterday that contrary to previous understanding Freshmen and Upperclassmen would be informed Saturday concerning residence in the Houses next year. All applicants will be answered by mail Saturday, May 14 was the date originally designated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Applicants | 5/3/1938 | See Source »

...less than $25,000 a year. Capital gains will be taxed in toto but the rates will be reduced-79% maximum on short-term gains but only 15% on gains from assets held more than two years, 20% on gains from assets held 18 months to two years -with previous losses chargeable to new profits in the next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Taxes | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

Until this year slope soaring has been the principal technique for record-making in the U. S. But when a Russian named Victor Rastorgeff went up over the perfectly flat country of central Russia last May and on successive flights soared 335, 374, 405 miles (previous world's record: 313 miles), U. S. soaring experts began to wonder if the hills around Elmira, N.Y. and on the edges of Virginia's Shenandoah Valley really are the best places in the country for their sport. Richard Chichester du Pont, Paul du Pont, and Lewin Barringer of the Soaring Society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Sails in the Sky | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

Postdating Poet Holden's previous book of poems (Granite and Alabaster) by 16 years, Natural History, though a far more proficient book, is still alabastrine in its often semiopaque, semiprecious imagery, granitic in its acceptance of the chiseling that life seems to have handed its author...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: 16-Yr. Lyricist | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...Uncle Harold at Hoppin Bros. Last week young Broker Haughey found himself scheduled to get Richard Whitney's seat on the New York Stock Exchange.. He had not asked for it, had merely filed a bid of $59,000. Since this was $7,000 above the previous sale, which had set a 20-year low, the Exchange quickly accepted it. With Dick Whitney just leaving for Sing Sing (see p. 37), his seat was the one Broker Haughey got. Dick Whitney paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Wall Street Week | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

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