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...cotton plan a "sincere and friendly gesture to the South," which he is said to love because he used to travel through it as a drummer. Cotton traders agreed that it was a gesture, not a cotton speculation, because 200,000 bales would be too infinitesimal a quantity to affect the broad price of a crop that runs into 13 or 14 million bales. And for a shrewd piece of publicity to boost Wrigley sales in the South, advertising men gave Mr. Wrigley full credit. Like wheat in western Canada, cotton in the South is the overwhelmingly important thing...
There could be little point, however, in preserving a culture as a museum, piece. Whether a university can affect the habits of a whole people is doubtful; a purely academic and scholastic survival of dialects and traditions is worth little. Few will hope for a university at which eager students learn the intricacies of Manx, Welsh, and Cornish only to pass on the knowledge to other bookish persons...
...present resumption Harvard-Princeton relations are now on the soundest possible basis; friendship founded on mutual respect. It is true that at present football policies remain divergent, and that complete harmony awaits future adjustments. However, there is no reason to believe that these differences should be allowed to affect the rest of the program. Football must be left to a later date; hasty action at the present time is to be avoided. Harvard and Princeton men of today have the long-anticipated opportunity to meet again in sporting contests on a dual basis...
...Supreme Court of the District of Columbia last week handed down a decision which, if upheld by the Supreme Court of the U. S., may deeply affect relations between the U. S. and hydroelectric companies...
...Flutter" is the name given to a rapid, rippling vibration which most commonly affects the unsupported wing of a monoplane, sometimes causing it to tear apart, but which at high speeds may affect the tail. Working with a model of the crashed plane, the investigators found it could not have flown fast enough to produce tail-flutter. But at slow speeds, they discovered, the plane's low wing could set up wicked eddying currents which wrenched the tail up and down, destroying all control. This they called "buffeting," and concluded it had sent the Junkers into its fatal dive...