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Last week Manhattan's huge Equitable Building at No. 120 Broadway announced that it would abandon its oil heating system, switch back to anthracite coal. Prime reason for the change was the fact that fuel oil stocks have been reduced 20% since September to a ten-year low, with a consequent rise in "Bunker C" prices from $1.05 to $1.80 per bbl. To the oil industry Equitable's decision meant not only the loss of 70,000 bbl. worth of business annually, but a dangerous precedent...
...73rd whose second session will be remembered for: ¶Dollar devaluation. ¶Compulsory limitation of the cotton crop to 10,000,000 bales. ¶ Authority for the President to start construction on 120 ships to bring the U. S. Navy up to treaty strength. ¶Philippine independence after a ten-year trial period. ¶Prohibition against loans, public or private, to any nation in default on its debts to the U. S. C. A tax law to plug leaks and raise $417,000,000 per year. ¶A commission to regulate stock exchanges. ¶Authority for the President to reduce...
...still-hopeful heart, we pull out something beginning like this; "Fifty-seven per cent of Yale men ten years out of college would fight in another war and forty-three percent would not, it was revealed today in the results of an 'opinion test'. A majority of Yale ten-year men disapprove of Albert. H. Wiggin and Samuel Insult; but approve of J. P. Morgan." Then you read on and it turns out that the Yale men are going to hold a dinner (war or no war). That is all right, but the thought of a united body of Yale...
...electrical engineer. But the grind for a living again gave Bloch the feeling that he was a man without a country. The music he was writing (America, Helvetia) added little to his name. He was desperate when he relinquished valuable manuscripts for the sake of a ten-year endowment from the rich Stern heirs in California (TIME, March...
...Germany is not prepared to fight; she has willing cannon fodder, but no tanks or heavy guns, and the possibility of a war between her and Poland is remote, because of the ten-year non-aggression pact recently concluded by the two nations...