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...basic commodities as of January 1,1923, in the bulletin of the New York Reserve Bank. Compared with January 1, 1922, much smaller stocks were reported of anthracite and bituminous coal, cement, brick, wood pulp, skins, leather, cotton, lamb. Larger stocks were reported in crude petroleum, kerosene, gasoline, beef, pork. Until stocks of commodities generally increase, it may be concluded that consumption is keeping pace with production, and that in consequence inflation is not yet upon...
...idea that what he was introducing could be anything more than a philanthropy. Altogether 1280 reindeer were imported into Alaska in twenty years. There are now considerably over 200,000 animals in a hundred herds. The meat is now selling at a higher price than beef, having worked its own way up as a desirable article of diet. The valuation of the skins cannot help increasing. The Chief of the United States Biological Survey in his evidence before a Congressional Committee, states that within twenty years the annual output of Alaska would be one and a quarter million carcasses...
...American for English tourists defines "chicken" as a "fowl of any age"-fried, fricasseed, roasted, burnt, or raw, won the day above all comers. Turkey, sliding along on grease, captured second; pork and beans, with the solid support of the Boston delegation, came in a good third; and corned beef and cabbage finished fourth. Water came in last, making, however, a game fight with ice water. Never was a more conclusive victory won. Long live King Fowl...
...exciting wrestling match. Then with a blare of trumpets came the pageantry of the "Praying Colonels" and after them the war dance of the Lost Tribe re-discovered. Up from the south came the Alligators, hardly disposed of when the Tiger sprang into the arena, dieted on raw beef so long that all efforts to tame him were unsuccessful...
After all, what is the function of the class president? If perchance a student was blest with 250 pounds of beef, and because of this merit won a position on the line of the football team, he might become a class president. And the class would get on as well, I daresay, as if it had elected one of its young Disraelis instead...