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Since last December when the U. S. Government inaugurated its policy of "sterilizing" gold purchases, the Treasury has bought and put in cold storage more than $600,000,000 worth of yellow metal. The Treasury not only receives no return on this huge deadweight investment; it has to borrow the money to carry it. What has been happening, in effect, is that the U. S. has been buying most of the world's output of newly-mined gold. And this fact is the nub of logic in recurring reports about the U. S. dropping its gold buying price. Having...
...social innuendo strike home. The fascinating tangles of the plot and the satire wrapped up in it, are quite sufficient. Jane Cowl, aspiring all the time to the first ladyship, throws the political impetus to her loathed rival's husband, thinking thereby to tie her down to a deadweight and keep her from taking up with a live possibility. The rival's husband is a stodgy jurist who spends his time writing minority decisions and listening to the Woops radio hour, but he is endeared to the public by the possession of a weak stomach. Anyway, Miss Cowl is forced...
Even if the most optimistic view of The Witch is taken, she is a figure of sociological and historical not artistic significance. The drama of her time was such a deadweight of triviality and gew gaw that at her greatest she could not cast it off for essential reforms. Her one move that might have stood out in the history of English theatre, her encouragement of Boucieault came to practical naught in "The London Assurance." She is really no more than a forerunner and a portent. Her history is interesting to the biographically minded and to specialists. This version...
...news from out of the West is going to solve the problem of what to do with Memorial Hall. Old "Mem" need no longer be regarded as a deadweight on the shoulders of an otherwise progressive University...
...expenditures," i. e., payment of pensions and interest or reparations loans, attributable to Germany under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. This Special Budget calls for $639,324,000 and as the French do not expect the Germans to pay any of this sum is will be a deadweight burden. The ordinary budget, however, places the sum of $157,500,000 at the disposal of the Special Budget. Thus, the deficit for reparations after subtracting the advance from the ordinary budget and the surplus on the ordinary budget, will leave the Government faced with a deficit...