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...season not brilliantly successful. In the history of Harvard-Yale cross country competition the Crimson forces have met defeat only three times, in 1924, 1933, and 1936. The ten year interval between 1924 and 1933 was not to be immediately repeated, and whether last year's low ebb was but bed rock for another long series of victories over the Blues is highly doubtful. For this fall Coach Jaakko Mikkola is faced with the dull prospect of preparing a now starless team for the combined Harvard-Yale-Princeton run November 5 at Cambridge...
...week before Labor Day traditionally marks an ebb of financial activity. Last week's was not only ebb but neap tide. Trading in bonds on the New York Stock Exchange one day was only $3,730,000, smallest since 1918. Volume of August stock trading had totaled only 17,220,000 shares, smallest for that month since 1934. Gloom hung so heavy in Wall Street that a seat on the Exchange sold for $75,000, lowest price since April 1935. On the sole million-share day last week 143 issues found new lows. On a recession not so great...
When ingenious Promoter Archie Moulton Andrews was finally thrown out of the Hupp management (TIME, Nov. 4, 1935), he left the company's affairs at a lower ebb than they had ever been since young Robert Hupp sat up all one cold night to assemble his first show model in 1908. From $52,500,000 in 1929, Hupp sales had dropped to $6,118,000 in 1933 and recovered only to $6,868,000 in 1935. Depressed by Hupp's million-dollar losses and by Archie Andrews' merchandising schemes, parts supply companies were refusing to extend credit...
...University of Virginia to help Educator Hutchins with his projected revival of the traditional liberal arts college course. Now Educator Hutchins was willing to help Educators Barr and Buchanan with their projected revival of a 241-year-old liberal arts college whose fortunes had fallen to a singularly low ebb...
Though time's unceasing ebb and flow still seem...