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...found the business too profitable to be abandoned. They pleaded the impossibility of preventing the trade, but, when faced with Japan's successful prohibition in Formosa, were forced to admit two significant facts: the traffic yields large tariff revenues in the colonies; and it stimulates the necessary immigration of cheap Chinese labor...
...titles with which the articles are captioned give some idea of the way in which this magazine represents student life in America: "Dan Cupid in the Colleges." "Tipplers and Toddlers." "The Hot Date and the O. F. G." "Girls Be yourself." Tae stories themselves are full of cheap witticisms and the coarse sensationalism usually confined to yellow journals and moving pictures. The coeducational feature is stressed to the limit, and beyond. Just what excuse there is for the publication of such a magazine it seems hard to imagine. If people must write about colleges why not do it truthfully...
...year. He put this with $400 he had saved, borrowed $100 from his sister and added his personal note for $1,500- with this total of $2,500 he bought 25 shares of Ford stock. As time went on and other stockholders sold out cheap, he increased his holdings to 100 times his original holdings. *Figures for production of Ford cars are as follows...
This import, by withdrawing the cheap copper imported from South America from the domestic markets, would favor home production at high operating costs. Yet it would also hamper the prosperity of many U. S. companies, like Anaconda, which have provided themselves with cheap foreign sources of supply. On the other hand, certain high-grade U. S. copper mines, like Kennecott in Alaska, would make astonishing profits...