Word: todays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...found that collegiate hoboism, once thought of as a shiftless, spendthrift, boomtime phenomenon, had in the past few years reached appalling proportions. Although it is commonly supposed that the typical college student enters as a freshman and emerges from the same college with a diploma four years later, actually today most students transfer or drop out before commencement day. Only one-third receive degrees in the college in which they started...
...were 308 legal reserve companies with aggregate assets of $26,249,049,219. The biggest three companies in 1906 had some half billion dollars in assets apiece then; now they have more than a billion apiece. And Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., which in 1906 had only $176,000,000, today has the fabulous total of $4,700,000,000, making it, next to American Telephone & Telegraph, the biggest company in the world. Said Bill Douglas: "This tremendous growth is itself cause for inquiry...
...last week's look-see into insurance began to diverge from the Armstrong pattern of 33 years ago. The Armstrong Commission was primarily interested in insurance by itself; the Monopoly Committee is out to survey "the economic power inherent in the vast investment funds controlled by insurance companies. . . ." Today the largest 49 legal reserve companies hold 11% of the U. S. debt, 9.9% of all outstanding municipal bonds, 22.9% of all railroad bonds, 22% of the public utility debt, 15% of the industrial debt, 14.5% of urban mortgages. The Metropolitan alone now invests...
Whether or not the Teachers' Oath will ever be repealed in Massachusetts may be determined by the outcome of today's vote for reconsideration of the bill which was defeated in the House last Thursday...
...Freshman Hockey game with St. Paul's school originally scheduled to be played last Saturday has been postponed until today on account of poor ice conditions...