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...less preposterous. For the sake of paying high rates on savings, commercial loans have been sought at exhorbitant rates indicative of the utmost insecurity. There seems little doubt that practices approximating extortion have been countenanced. Mismanagement and poor judgment have led to the accumulation of resources far from liquid, slow loans, worthless paper, dubious realty holdings, and notes impossible to collect...
Uncertainty as to how the summer vacation may best be spent always exists in the minds of many undergraduates until the examinations are upon us. Those who cannot afford to loaf at the seashore or seek liquid consolation in Europe or Canada are confronted with the important problem: What temporary employment is there available? A solution may be found in tutoring positions and the like, but the man who wants an open-air job, involving a not to too strenuous degree of physical labor, meets the greatest difficulty in placing himself...
...wooden drill hall, bought from the Navy last June, into a mechanical engineering laboratory. The building has been re-lined for greater warmth and automatic sprinklers, foundations for heavy machinery and a complete drainage system installed. The building has been completely re-wired. Much of the apparatus, including a liquid air machine, steam and gas engines and steel testing machinery, has already been set up so that the building is now in active...
...dark hours of last night and early morning eight hundred soldiers of misfortune sprinkled their blouses with the familiar and odorous Carbona, patched up the rips in their breeches, turned their shirts inside out so the dirt wouldn't show, polished their shoes with liquid paint, and washed their faces for the great inspection. In time of peace, as Shakespere so ably said it, prepare for war. The preparation has been made...
...speculation is perhaps most important of all. A fifth point, which should receive greater stress than is usually given it, is that speculators, by making an active market, make it safe for banks to lend on goods that are being carried over to a later season--make bank loans "liquid." The speculator also, by putting up a "margin," protects the banks from risk in financing such operations...