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Results of the twelfth annual survey of the nation's department stores and specialty shops conducted by the Graduate School of Business Administration's Bureau of Business Research reveal that the last year has been featured by a sharp decline in the total sales and in the size of the average sale of 675 stores doing a business of $1,300,000,000. More than half, the stores reporting lost money, but well-managed stores of all sizes showed sizeable earnings...
...Cash-Shannon duel still bothers South Carolinians who "hold honor dearer than life." Col. Ellerbe Boggan Crawford Cash's wife held a judgment against her brother's property. A client of Col. William M. Shannon and Capt. William L. DePass held a junior judgment and contested the sale of the property to satisty Mrs Cash's claim. The legal basis of the contest was a charge of fraud between Mrs. Cash and her brother...
Tickets for the Freshman Jubilee will be on sale at the Union during lunch and dinner today and tomorrow...
Next October Erpi Picture Consultants, Inc. (subsidiary of American Telephone & Telegraph Co.) will offer for sale a set of 20 one-reel sound pictures produced in the Physical Sciences Department at Chicago. The pictures will show detailed scientific experiments, synchronized with lectures by Chicago professors. Subjects include: the flow of protoplasm in plant & animal life, the excavations of Nineveh and Megiddo, the heartbeat of a dog. Price for the set will be $1,400 including projector. The university will receive no profit beyond publicity. Not intended to take the place of professors or to reduce teaching time, the films...
...Metropolitan's financial woes have kept it prominently in the news all season and last week was no exception. The subscription sale opened for the shortened hwa season, went better than it has :or 25 years. Baritone Clarence White-lill's contract expired and as he announced lis departure, his intention to enter motion pictures, he took a parting thrust at Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza: "The Metropolitan is an Italian institution...