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...This year, moreover, the 595.000,000 bu. harvested is light in weight, requiring the use of more bushels per barrel of flour. The surpluses piled up prior to 1933 are nearly exhausted, and before the next harvest U. S. millers must import perhaps 50,000,000 bu. of high-grade Canadian grain over a 42¢-per-bu. tariff...
Founded in 1910 by three Brothers Salomon, of whom two?Percy and Herbert?are still alive and at the head of the firm, Salomon Brothers & Hutzler has always been known largely as a dealer in Governments, municipals, high-grade corporate bonds, bankers acceptances, short-term paper. Because the late Arthur Salomon originally hoped to model his firm on the big London discount houses, advertisements are always signed "The Discount House of Salomon Brothers & Hutzler," though the term is almost meaningless today. Its bond and paper business keeps it in constant touch with banks and institutions, and the Socony issue...
...rival limiteds, the schedule was a breathtaking 20 hours. Lately, however, airplane and streamline rivalry forced a succession of cuts-first to 18, then to 17¾, finally, last April, to 17 hours flat. The two trains can go faster, but railway officials know that density of population, roadbeds, grade-crossings make a 15-hr. schedule too dangerous to be warranted...
...Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. When thus hospitalized, each case will be under the care usually of a senior hospital staff man of recognized distinction in his field. Under this arrangement, any seriously sick man, or any man needing the care of highly trained specialists, will have available a grade of professional and hospital ser- vice not possible to give in the Stillman or any other infirmary...
Somewhere Juniors are talking: For a man who really wants to accomplish things Harvard's the place. Best men in the country here. Too bad we all can't make the top grade. Yet, you know, my tutor says I've still a chance. Two more years is a long time. After next week-end I'm on the books to stay...