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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Could not the University permit the total of ten meals to be made up not only by a student's own meals but also by the meals of his guests? Then if a man has a guest at each meal he eats in a House, he needs only to be present five times a week in the dining room. His friends can either pay him for the meal they eat with him there, or else entertain him themselves at some other time. That leaves 16 meals a week to eat where he chooses or where he must...
...Edgar Rickard. Other doings: one hour at church; two hours on a motor ride. ¶ Thirty-five public utility executives, led by Owen D. Young, chairman of General Electric, filed into the Cabinet Room, pledged nearly two billion dollars to the President's Momentum-for-Industry program. Total pledges: ten billion dollars. ¶ To the White House went Senator Robert F. Wagner of New York, asked President Hoover to practice his own plea by preventing the release of 1,000 civilian employes at the U. S. Navy Yard at Brooklyn...
...Last week Postmaster General Brown announced that his department was ready to award ocean mail contracts over 13 approved routes, provided that in return for ten-million-dollar annual contracts, 40 new mail ships, totaling 460,000 tons, be constructed in ten years at a cost of $250,000,000. First objector to this plan was U. S. Lines, Inc., owners of the Leviathan and ten other onetime U. S. Shipping Board vessels, which vould be required to construct eleven new vessels, three of them of the superliner class, at a total cost of $150,000,000 in return...
...Widener, the morning to the others. Voting on two successive flays is a workable solution of this problem. The necessity for more supervisors can easily be met by increasing the membership of the Junior Polls Committees; and the result can hardly, fall to be a substantial enlargement of the total vote cast...
...coffee guaranteed insomnia and a finished thesis. The gallons of steaming fluid which will be consumed might better be sold to shivering football spectators or sent out at midnight to those who grind exceeding slow. Nor can one underestimate the possibility of fatal error and the danger of a total waste of the investigator's time if the frothy decaffeinated stuff from Childs' is used. That the conditions of this scientific drinking bout may be better understood--are the tipplers to clear their taste with Old Golds between cups...