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...their number vary from 15 per cent to 20 per cent exclusive of those in graduate schools, and a grim view of the future will be obtained. It is a dangerous situation when men may be asked to sacrifice their lives with the prospects for an enjoyable life appearing slimmer than they have been for generations...
...addition, Yale was guilty of employing duck-pins, while the Cantabs limited themselves to the taller, slimmer, less easily stricken candle-pins...
...expenses. Gross national bank income in 1929 was $1,389,400,000, expenses $986,882,000. Last year gross bank income was only $847,197,000, expenses $577,851,000. In short, profits may be waxing, but banking is waning. Moreover the banking that remains is done on slimmer margins. The Federal Reserve Board released figures last week showing what easy money meant in terms of practical banking. For every $100 of loans and investments, national banks received $5.76 in interest in 1929, only...
...seriously believed, during the stockmarket's long slide last spring, that Recovery was over. What was feared then was that the combination of strikes, rising labor costs and higher commodity prices would make for slimmer profits. That fear was by no means without foundation but it was exaggerated, as usual, in the stock-market's behavior. Stock prices have regained on the average about two-thirds of all ground lost between March and June. And by last week enough corporations had reported earnings for the first half of 1937 to indicate clearly that Big Business was still profitable...
Like most critics, Husband Stieglitz felt that the ablest picture in last week's show was Slimmer Days, showing a deer's skull floating in the sky above a scattering of bright field flowers, then beneath, the misty mountains of New Mexico...