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...Dancers. The progress of the two women chiefly concerned herein is much like that of a mountain cable railway. One starts at the peak and slips downward; along the adjoining track the other climbs steadily to the top. The motive power is a man's love. Both are dancers; the first of the type usually called "nice," whose blood is burned with ragtime rhythms; the second, a cabaret performer. A London flat, a Canadian barroom, a bridal suite at the Savoy, and a music hall dressing room in Paris are the successive backgrounds. Romance is omnipresent...
...business enterprise, but business ability; Rothermere lacked the former but was a positive genius in the business affairs of the firm. Lord Beaverbrook's journalistic career was mainly connected with Canada until he bought The Daily Express. A priori it seems that the British press is on the downward slant, since both these men will control the largest newspaper combine in Britain, whose newspapers will reach about 90% of the British reading public...
...continued high cost of construction has, along with the downward tendency of rentals, apparently placed a damper upon construction. Bradstreet's report, covering conditions in 152 cities throughout the country, shows that, compared with $224,624,218 of construction for August last, the value of construction last September in the same cities amounted to $198,942,935. Part of this decrease can only be accounted for through the fact that there were two more business days in August than in September. The figure for September...
...downward swing of prices on the Stock Exchange, in addition to the decreased production of pig iron and the unfilled orders...
Steel Corporation, have discouraged the blind optimists and Pollyannas of business, without materially changing the opinion of less one-sided observers. The business outlook holds no great terrors for industry or commerce, but its temporarily downward tendency should neither be blinked at or explained away...