Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Princeton won the second of the triangular yacht races among the Tiger, Yale, and Harvard crews here this afternoon. Today's victory was the second straight for the Princeton crew and practically assures the Tiger sailors of first place in the series. The race was held on a ten and three-tenths mile course, with the three crews racing in eight meter boats owned by members of the Pequot Yacht Clug, of Southport, under whose auspices the series is being conducted...
Yesterday, "Sonny", piloted by Arthur Knapp of Princeton, crossed the finish line almost ten minutes ahead of the Yale boat, which lead the Harvard boat by over two minutes...
...congress of this kind necessarily demands minute preparedness to keep the delegates busy and also entertained. Such things as had to be kept in mind are as follows: propaganda, in the aims of which over ten thousand advertisement posters and an equal number of placards were printed and sent off to students' unions and foreign authorities, the hiring and decorating of hotels, auditoriums, etc., excursions planned, and preparing for the general welfare of the delegates...
...Conn., June 11,--After the weekend spent cruising on J. P. Morgan's yacht the "Cosair", the Crimson oarsmen started out upon the final ten days of practice for the Yale races this morning with a two mile drill on the down-stream course. The Thames was moderately calm, ruffled on the return trip by a rising southwest wind...
...American Banker calculates that 12 New York banks have this spring increased their capital by $209,390,000. Such advances it calls sensational and points out that banks used to figure that they must have ten times as much in deposits as they have in capital in order to earn proper dividends on that capital. Now the great New York banks average $8 of deposits, the paper says, to $1 of capital. Bankers Trust with $116,000.000 resources (capital, surplus and undivided profits) and $562,000,000 deposits has a 5 to 1 ratio...