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Despite a last-minute spurt of power and tightening up of form all around, the Harvard Varsity eight was unable to stave off a 2 3/4 length defeat at the hands of the Tiger, in its first intercollegiate contest of the season Saturday afternoon in the Basin. Princeton had gained a sizeable lead at the getaway, and held it easily almost until the end of the fast 1 3/4 mile course, finishing in 9 minutes, 18 seconds, as compared with the Crimson boat, which crossed the line in 9 minutes, 27 seconds. M.I.T. came in a poor third, about three...
...mile run, finishing in 4 minutes, 24 4-5 seconds. Bullwinkle started at scratch and pulled up to second place at the three-quarter mark, trailing Foote, who had received a 25-yard handicap, by 10 yards. As they bore down on the finish line, Bullwinkle staged a final spurt, and finished a bare two feet ahead of Foote...
...promises to raise only 60 this year. Secretary Wallace gives him an option on 30 bales of Government cotton at 6? per lb., the current market price. When hundreds of thousands of John Planters repeat this process, cotton demand starts to exceed cotton supply and prices (in theory) spurt up to 8? or 10? or 12? per lb. Next autumn John Planter orders Secretary Wallace to sell his option cotton, makes a tidy profit to compensate him for the 30 bales he never raised. If the cotton market fails to rise, John Planter stands to lose nothing on his free...
...There's a general feeling of optimism in the air. You can almost reach out and touch it. The Depression has run its course. The upturn has come. We go ahead in spurts. It's time to spurt again to new levels of prosperity. Adjustment, that's the word. Therein lies the solution to most of our problems. The United States has a large volume of buying power unused. Buyers have been afraid to spend their money. The job is to unleash the buying power...
Another statistic which General Dawes must have pondered last week was bank clearings. After a brief spurt a fortnight ago they slumped badly last week. Twenty-one cities outside New York ran 46.3% below 1931 and including New York the average decline was 52.6%. Heaviest loser among the cities reported was Boston with a 58.7% drop for the week. During the first quarter the total decline averaged...