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...Chicago steamed out of San Pedro harbor one day last week, headed up the California coast to join the Navy Day ceremonies in San Francisco Bay. Off Point Sur, 110 mi. south of the Golden Gate, a dense fog closed around her. Suddenly just before the 8 o'clock morning watch was called, a large brown ship loomed out of the mists across her bow. The Chicago slackened speed, veered sharply to port. The brown ship scurried across her path, disappeared into the fog. Before the Chicago could swing her bow around again, a second ship, the British freighter...
...difference being credited to surplus and reserves from which proper provision would be made for "unsatisfactory as sets." The stockholders' equity according to the bank's last statement consisted of $75,000,000 in capital, $25,000,000 in sur plus and $6,600,000 in undivided profits and reserves - a total of $106,600,000. The anticipated equity after the reorganization is $25,000,000 in common stock capital and $25,000,000 in surplus, undivided profits and reserves - a total of $50.000,000, indicating a write-off of $56,600,000. Thus, adding...
...There has been a great cry for economic planning. I often wonder whether the people who call for it really mean what they say. Are they willing to sur render their individual freedom to the extent necessary to cooperate in a plan. . . . Rugged individualism is not so bad, however much we jeer the phrase today...
...Haven and Brookline both held the same ranks last year (TIME, May 2). Twelve cities of last year's list have been dropped from the honor roll either because economies have hog-tied their health officers or because other communities have intensified their health activities and sur passed the failures. The twelve dropped cities are: Philadelphia, St. Louis, Kansas City, Utica, N. Y., Harrisburg, Pa., Kenosha and Racine, Wis., Alhambra, Calif., Maplewood, Orange and West Orange, N. J., Monrovia, Calif...
Andre Morize, professor of French Literature, was the speaker at a meeting of the Modern Language Conference last night. The subject of Professor Morize's talk was "Quelques types d'Americains sur la scene francaise," in which he traced the development of satire on the American type especially on the French stage...