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...gazed through the window, watching the snowflakes whirl out of the blackness into the light that radiated from his room, following them as they curved past the panes and out of sight again. Large clots occasionally caught on the glass; began to melt, then dragged downward until they disappeared into a trail of water. Fleece piled up into triangles in the corners of the windowsill, slowly creeping up over the edges of the bottom panes, rounding off the window's squareness. There they hung, shining glazier's points, with their pale faces flattened against the panes, peering...
...number of students employed increased by 67 over the previous year. Term time earnings reached the highest point since 1932-33, while summer earnings continued downward for the second successive year...
Some stores and showrooms have "invisible glass" windows, but these are parabolic panes such that reflections are bent downward and absorbed in a baffle of black cloth. Glass such as Katharine Blodgett's, which actually obliterates reflection at its surface, could be used as an invisible protection for paintings in galleries and museums. Other possible uses: automobile windshields, shop windows, show cases, cameras, spectacles, telescopes, field glasses...
...been this year and that it will be above the level of 1935 and below that of 1936. . . . The year as a whole will almost surely be a better business year than this has been, but it is quite possible that the trend of affairs may be downward again before it draws toward its close...
...only the company or industry affected, but the whole economic system suffers from the bludgeoning effect of fixed maturities falling due during depressions, and the freezing of capital due to defaults. Even in industries where defaults do not occur, fixed charges exercise a downward leverage on public purchasing power, a leverage that affects not only dividends but wages...