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...bonds reached the highest level in U. S. history. On that day the averages went above 106, which was more than 40 points above the Depression low. Failing to break its previous mark in a January rally, the bond market has been headed steadily downward ever since. After a wide-open break in Government issues last week there were few who dared predict that bond prices would better their old highs during the life of the present business cycle...
...Texas Liquor Control Board to enforce the State law against the sale of hard liquor by the drink. El Paso never took Prohibition very seriously because Mexico's gay Juarez was always just across the Rio Grande River over 2^ toll bridges. Lately the city has been wide-open in defiance of State law. What annoyed the city's barkeepers last week was that the inspectors arrived two days before the 40th annual convention of the American National Livestock Association brought 1,500 of the primest U. S. cattlemen to town...
Coach Whiteside still refuses to pick his first two crews and reasserts that when the Varsity gets off the tank there will be five eights with positions in the first one wide-open...
...Added incentive to action was the announcement that, for the first time, the U. S. will pick an Olympic team to vie with Uruguayans, Bulgarians, Turks and other basketeers next summer. Best explanation for the enthusiasm was the loud-mouthed rivalry between the Midwest's zone defense and wide-open play, the East's man-for-man defense and more cautious offense...
...years lowans have complacently accepted Sioux City, wide-open river town as something of a black sheep on the edge of their fold. Verne Marshall, crusading editor of the Cedar Rapids Gazette, did not object to Sioux Citizens having their gambling and highballs, but his nostrils quivered at the smell of bargaining between lawbreakers and officials. After a legislative investigation which resulted in the conviction of State Liquor Commission Chairman Harold M. Cooper for disposing illegally of State liquor seals. Editor Marshall early this year prodded Woodbury County (Sioux City) into a grand jury investigation...