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...into "commercial business" would "produce a huge rise in commodity prices, inflation of inventories, and an artificial business boom . . . which could only end in a colossal smash." In other words, if business in general had the money now in brokers' loans, it would swell up and burst. There is more capital extant "than the country knows what to do with." The safe place for this capital is in the Stock Market, pictured as a kind of financial safety valve in which surplus funds may harmlessly be blown off. Mr. Simmons did not claim, however, that these surplus funds should...
Suddenly little glass balls, hundreds of them, hurtled from the gallery and burst among audience, musicians, actors. Rose a towering, awful stench. Choking and clenching their noses, the Poles fled from the opera house, to be met outside by German Nationalist students who clenched clubs...
...representative of Dunlap Rubber Co. (slogan: Dunlap Tires as British as the Flag!) journeys to wherever in Great Britain the Royal cars may be and thoroughly tests the rubber of each tire, scanning minutely for nails, flints, stone-bruises. Thus the undignified spectacle of Majesty waiting for a burst tire to be changed is seldom or never presented to English eyes...
Philadelphia, Pa., April 26--Coming from behind with a sustained burst of speed, Captain J. L. Reid '29 carried his distance medley relay quartet to a second place in one of the most sensational races of the first day of the Penn Relay Carnival which started here today. Warm weather and a fast track aided the Crimson leader in covering the final mile leg in the extraordinarily fast time of 4 minutes, 21 seconds...
...incapacitated from attendance. Successive classes were summoned; there was a hush over that immense concourse that would have made a footfall seem loud. At length "the class of 1744" was called; a feeble old man stepped forth, and passed along the aisle alone. A reaction was experienced, and a burst of animated cheers followed his tottering foot-steps. It was a grand moment. I know nothing finer in the poetry of life...