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...straw that businessmen have clung to during Depression II has been the steadiness of building as compared with virtually every other major U. S. industry. Although new construction was at such low ebb it could not drop much, there were other considerations: 1) rents in 1937 rose out of proportion to living costs, 2) building costs simultaneously fell, 3) the New Deal still further liberalized its construction lending policy...
...this and much, much more. Infinite variations of the theme. The ebb and flow of one life during four hectic and fleeting years in the most stubborn, parsimonious, tyrannical, antediluvian, irritating, tractable, generous, democratic, progressive, lovable university in America. To those who will become only a name with numerals on a card index file and a musty bluebook--goodbye. Your worthwhile additions to college life, and there were some, will be remembered; the rest forgotten. You are not Harvard any more. But you are, always Harvard...
...Rhea. although he could not say definitely that a bear market was beginning, cautioned his subscribers to think of protecting profits they had made in the bull market since 1932. Six months later, the Dow Theory gave a definite signal that the U. S. was in a bear market (ebb tide), had been in it since March. Thus, because it was succeeded by a wave with a lower crest and a lower trough, the March wave was proved to have been the high mark of the 1932-37 incoming tide. When September's definite signal was given...
...accuracy." For from this offered inch Hollywood was bound to make an ell. The past cinema season has been pretty rough on Stevenson-adding a blonde Kozatsky dancer to the Soviet's Treasure Island (TIME, Jan. 31), flaunting an unimagined Hollywood ingenue in a Technicolored sarong in Ebb Tide (TIME, Nov. 29)-but in Kidnapped, R. L. S. takes the count. Producer Darryl F. Zanuck. the better to display a fine figure of a lass named Arleen Whelan, has shifted many of the novel's best scenes to strange and shadowy positions, has relegated to the attic...
...debate with Yale in the Boston Public Library is slated for the fall, as well as trips to Southern and Western colleges. The intercollegiate group will be restricted to 25 debaters, Ebb said...