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Andrew Volstead: "It cost my daughter, Laura, two dollars when she parked my auto in front of a Washington watering trough so that horses could not drink. Violation of traffic regulations...
...recent Reserve report contained data which gives an excellent perspective upon present business conditions. According to statistics covering the Second Reserve District contained therein, since the " trough " of the recent depression to the pres-ent time production has gained 54%, employment 23%, wholesale trade 31%, retail trade 13% and bank loans 32%. Marked price advances have been seen in pig iron, copper, tin, lead, cotton, print cloth, raw sugar and even corn...
...According to all available indices, including indices of production, employment, and prices, the trough of a depression from which this country is just beginning to emerge was reached in the early summer of 1921," said Mr. F. Y. Presley of the Harvard Economic Service in an interview for the CRIMSON yesterday. "Since that time wholesale prices reflected by Bradstreet's price index have been advancing slowly without important interruption...
...adoption was strongly urged upon the college authorities. Here, as in all other recommendations, cognizance had to be taken of the chief stumbling block--the insufficiency of attractive features as a means of fostering interest in the Union. The proverbial horse might be whipped, in a sense, to the trough of water, but he could not be forced to drink from that receptacle. In compelling each member of the University to join the Union by placing the tax on his term bill, additional revenue would be assured unquestionably. It would not follow, however, that the Union's popularity...
...fore to aft, is lifted up on the crest of a wave surging against her side; the passengers and seamen crowding on the deck are painted with unusual animation and attention to detail. The warm-colored sails are brought down in beautiful reflections in the limpid water of the trough of the sea, and the transparent surface of the large wave at the left is finely relieved by a touch of opaque white light supplied by a sea gull flying close to the green water, the limpidity of which is further accentuated by the spume-fringed eddies on the surface...