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...miners. To the anthracite operators, it would mean a strike without the prospect of losing any of their market by the public's taking to soft coal as a substitute. To the miners, it would mean a chance to obtain a wage increase, since all coal prices would soar tremendously, and there would be prospect of such large profits to operators that they might more willingly accept a wage increase...
...Union soft-coal operators should repudiate their agreement, there would be a strike. If this came in combination with a strike in the anthracite regions, there would be a coal scarcity, prices would soar and, for a time, all mines could open up and sell at a profit...
...Week. With ten defeats out of the last 13 games played, the University nine faces the most difficult kind of prospect if it is to triumph over the Blue. Princeton, with Caldwell in the box, bowed to the New Haven team on Saturday, a defeat which makes the odds soar even higher on Yale against the Crimson...
...these extremes has freedom of thought carried the tribe of Why-nots. Understand me, my dear Usbek! Never for a moment would I infringe the privilege of youth to soar with head among the clouds. But free thinking, properly understood, demands that even youth keep its feet on the earth...
...past week saw no new devel- opments in the U. S. There was a continuation and even a deepening of tendencies already recognized. Wheat continued to soar in one of the most sensational recoveries on record. Farmers were cheerful. Rural bankers breathed easier, and bank failures in the West were halted. Mail-order houses, farm implement people and others who sell to farmers reported a distinct turn for the better. North and middle west- ern roads were optimistic because of increased freights, not only of grain going east but heavier farmers' purchases going west. In the Atlantic states, business...