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...shoe industry is practically at a standstill, and the operators can quite afford to wait a few weeks until the workers are driven back to the shops by sheer want, for orders are not so many or so pressing that they cannot be filled next week as well as today. Nothing beyond pure benevolence or consideration on the part of the employers can bring any alleviation of the workers position, and the operators in the sloe industry are not widely noted for such philanthropy. In short, strikes in this region are hardly more than brave gestures, yet the Massachusetts trouble...
With Belgian confidence quickening, Manager van Zealand of the National Bank of Belgium addressed German economists in Berlin, stressed that "our published gold reserves afford a cover for sight liabilities varying between...
...that those in authority have decided that in lieu of the vanished pomps of yesteryear, the public is at least entitled to a few good belly laughs and for this reason are relaxing their vigil over our entertainment. If we can't afford to be decadent we can at least have our humor more rudimentary. There are abounding proofs that standards are becoming more liberalized. "Hot Pepper," a McLaglon-Lowe comedy coming to the University Theatre in the near future, is a good case in point...
Officials at Lehman Hall, in charge of dormitory accommodations stated that the University cannot afford to replace Shepherd Hall at the present time, and the building is not considered of sufficient value to warrant extensive repairs. The system of fire-doors, which the Inspector held to be inadequate, will be improved, and an attempt will be made to lessen the other fire hazards caused by the wooden construction and external wiring...
...citadel, but some record different events in the siege, or do not begin at the same dates. Merely a notation of the happenings of the war, little in the way of a story book may be expected from the diaries; but to the student of colonial history they afford a wealth of material in factual form. Deaths seem to occupy large portions of each day's entries and it is interesting to note that many of the wounds resulted from explosions of the colonists' own cannon, so inexperienced were the militia in handling heavy field pieces. Thanks to the assiduousness...