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...Good cities had slightly fewer citizens listed in Who's Who. "There are too few eminent persons in any town to affect the general score. You don't get many individuals who read Euripides in the original Greek in Kalamazoo, but you don't get many in Cambridge, either...
...tenth minority of the dining hall employees, involves several considerations not entirely favorable to the interests of the student and the University. It must be realized that, in reaching a settlement, Harvard is acting not only for itself, but directly for the student. Any manner of decision will affect the student body as a whole. If the University grants a further wage increase, it is almost axiomatic that the student board rate will rise accordingly--perhaps to the extent of an extra fifty cents a week, were the wage scale raised, for instance, to eighteen dollars for waitresses. With...
...losses for one year to be applied against adjusted net income for the following year in computing the undistributed profits tax; and 3) permitting taxpayers to "segregate the capital gains into a class of income by itself." First proposal would mean that 93% of U. S. corporations would be affected by corporate gains modifications. Second would affect large and small business alike. Third would principally benefit large individual incomes. Representative Vinson, seconded by the Ways & Means Committee's Chairman Robert Lee Doughton made it clear that tax legislation would not be ready for action in the special session. Said...
...Astronomer Stetson traces a possible channel through which his supposed influences may reach their human objects. The ultraviolet radiation increase due to sunspots produces more Vitamin D in the skin. It may also produce more vitamins in plants which men eat. Increased vitamin intake may, through the endocrine glands, affect emotions and moods. Therefore, "since the composite curve of business activity is fundamentally a curve of mass psychology," sunspots may affect business activity...
Human nerves are still another possible avenue of sunspot influence. Sunspots cause "storms" in the earth's magnetic field. Magnetic fields affect electric currents. Electric currents are the mode by which nerve impulses are carried in the body...