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Short selling has all but disappeared in Wall Street, thanks to stricter margin requirements and trading rules. At year's end, the short interest on the New York Stock Exchange was a record-small 349,154 shares. On May 25, 1931, it was 5,589,700 shares...
...occur. Allowing their opponents only three first places out of a possible nine, the Ulenmen rang up a 53 to 22 win and, incidentally, their third straight victory in the current campaign. Prior to the Varsity meet, the Yardlings defeated the Brown Freshmen by the equally decisive margin...
...Leave your shop cut on the margin plate...
...carrying the country into war. In May, they rose in protest against the President's request for authority to take over 500,000 tons of Axis shipping tied up in U.S. ports. In hot midsummer, their volleys and thunders reached a climax. By a hair, by the margin of one vote, they just failed to wreck the country's fumbling efforts to raise an army. Extension of the draft finally passed the House...
After a disastrous opening day performance Harvard braced, took the second game from the Bengals, and then dropped the deciding match by a 3 to 2 margin. At any event, the performance was much better than last year's, when the Tigers shellacked Harvard...