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...yard mark, a few, out of compliment to the royal golfer, went a yard or two farther. "Smack," went the Duke's club. "Click. Clack," snapped a score of cameras. "Hooray," roared the crowd. The ball cleared the caddies by yards, bounced, came to a halt 210 yards from...
During his illness, he repeatedly asked for his favorite newspaper; but the doctors, fearing to let him see the unfavorable bulletins which they had issued, did not accede to his demand. Finally, on the eve of his death, a morning newspaper* consented to halt its presses and print a single copy of a special edition, called by the British press "the bedside edition," wherein was described his "great improvement" and the certainty of his early convalescence?but all in vain; the "bedside edition" was hardly wet with its ink before Lord Curzon had expired. It was a considerate and sporting...
...Federal Reserve Bank from 3 to 3½%. The rate had not been changed since Aug. 8, 1924, when it was lowered from 3½ to 3%. Considerable conjecture arose as to the cause for raising the rate, and whether it indicated a move to halt speculation in the stockmarket. Most editorial writers decided to the contrary −a position which the bank's own statement confirms. The New York Bank rate at 3% was below the market rates and also under every other Reserve Bank− Boston, Philadelphia, Cleveland and San Francisco already standing...
...financial markets have come to another halt. The stock market, digesting recent price-advances, has proved irregular and less active, while sterling exchange has also lingered on its way back to par. The wheat market has experienced a severe but apparently speculative break below $2.00. Iron and steel production has mounted rapidly to what is already being called its peak for 1925 by business forecasters...
Gold exports continue heavy, yet the country's large trade balance in recent months leads many financial writers here and abroad to predict that the out ward flow of gold from the U. S. will shortly halt and that we may even see some of the recently exported yellow metal come back to us again later in the year...