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Meantime, aided by statisticians, prophets indulged in prophesying. The year just closing had been neither a bad year nor a boom. The sales volume, both in dollars and units (cars), would exceed even record-smashing 1925.* That seeming certainty, after the gloomy predictions of last spring, augured well indeed for 1927. The new record would result chiefly from large gains by a few big companies, but gains made at no expense to the small. After any bad year most of the companies set out to recuperate by developing new lines or by cutting prices. This year Detroit anticipated only...
...water-dwelling member of the boa-constrictor family.* Far more ill-tempered than its cousins, the African boas and the pythons of Africa, Asia and Australia, it is the largest snake in the New World, third largest in all the world (after the reticulated and Indian pythons, which sometimes exceed ten yards in length...
...question of speed, I confidently predict that the dirigibles of the future will exceed 100 miles an hour. This means a passenger from New York would arive in London in about 30 hours. At present, we can go 60 miles an hour in some airships, which is much faster time than the best trans-Atlantic liners make...
...Phillips Brooks House will open its Fall Clothing Collection drive today, it was announced by C. G. T. Lundell '27, Secretary, last night. The collection will last until Thursday noon of this week and it is expected that the contributions will exceed the record mark established last year...
...tickets for the Harvard Dartmouth game, and succeeds in disposing of this number with great regularity, Princeton only takes care of 10,000 seats in the Stadium for the bi-yearly clash in Cambridge, and the total sales in Princeton this fall for Saturday's game will not exceed that figure...