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...Actual contact with the inner workings of the University, its museums and its lecture halls, ought to stimulate greater interest in higher education and a deeper appreciation of its services. Next summer, as an aftermath of the Tercentenary, there will probably be an unusually large number of visitors in comparison with former normal years, and consequently a greater demand for guides...
...Gandhi retired from official leadership of the Congress in 1934, but his scrawny fingers have never entirely left the helm. He is Conservative and friendly to Britain by comparison with violent Congress President Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru who is always preaching about "Socialism" and has keynoted that for Congressmen to take office under the new Constitution "would inevitably mean a kind of Partnership with Imperialism in the exploitation of the Indian people...
Trusts have hitherto objected strenuously to comparisons with stockmarket averages. This year Tri-Continental was only too glad to point out that in comparison with an average gain of 32% for general management trusts, Standard Statistics' 90-stock average rose only 27.9% the New York Times' 50-stock average only 21.1%, the 782 common stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange about 25%. The Dow-Jones averages showed a 24.5% rise in industrials, 32.5% in rails, 17.9% in utilities. Actually the comparison was even more favorable to the trusts because part of their assets were in cash...
...closest friends. The recent trial shifted any blame for the present lagging of Soviet Heavy Industry from Ordzhonikidze to the "Trotskyism" of his Vice-Commissar, Grigoriy Piatakov, who was sentenced to death. Piatakov was not only one of the very biggest Reds but a warm and human character by comparison with the cold, brusque Ordzhonikidze. Russia has long been a land of personal vengeance and Piatakov was the kind of man whose Russian friends would risk their lives to avenge him. After the death sentence was passed on Piatakov, the "sudden death" of Ordzhonikidze was something Moscow correspondents...
...cyclical groove, which is about twice as long as that of the general business cycle, the building industry last year recovered to about the 1931 level. Since the peak of the last boom was hit not in 1929 but in the middle 1920s this recovery was spectacular only in comparison with its incredible Depression prostration. F. W. Dodge Corp.'s figure for all types of construction in 1936 in the 37 States east of the Rocky Mountains was $2,675,000,000 as against $1,844,000,000 the year before, $1,255,000,000 in 1933. Residential building...