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...important business index which has long made gloomy reading showed a sudden turnabout last week. Carloadings (for the week ended Oct. 3) came to 777,837 cars, an increase of 39.808 from the preceding week and the highest of the year. Previous 1931 top was 775.291 for the week ended...
...analysis of what has brought about this change is more difficult. It is a complete turnabout from the immediate post-war attitude to college education. It is a registering of disgust toward the "collegiatism" of the twenties. The idea that a college education is a key to social life is also passing. It has rather become for many the key to a successful business life. In this respect the depression of the past two years undoubtedly has had a chastening effect on the student ambitious of a business life and has strengthened his seriousness of purpose...
...striking example of a quick turnabout on the part of the Chinese was given in 1911 when in connection with the revolt against the Manchus, the Cantonese first, and then the Chinese of other provinces almost completely eliminated the queue in a very few days. This was very forcibly impressed upon me by my own observation on December 10th of that year. In my hotel at luncheon, all the waiters and houseboys were wearing queues and at dinner time not a single queue was to be seen, though many hands were raised to the backs of heads to make perfectly...