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Last year, Ed Buckley's sensational lay-up shot in the last minute of play gave the Crimson a slim one-point margin of victory, 33 to 32, so that the Jumbos may well be expected to go "all out" for revenge in tonight's clash...
Another Cornell triumph over Yale this season, scored at Ithaca Saturday night by a 51-to-34 margin, gave the Big Red its third win in four starts, while the idle Hanover team has taken two of three. The important point, however, is that the champions are even with the pace-setters in the lost column...
...This figure has nothing to do with a return on invested capital, is merely the margin of profit per order figured on this rule: "Where the amount of the contract and the profit was shown, cost was determined by deducting the profit from the amount of the contract; where the cost and the profit only were shown, the amount of contract was determined by adding the profit to the cost." In some businesses a 1% margin of profit is adequate; in others 100% may be none too large for an adequate return...
...Europe and the Far East men are starving, but the U.S. is still blessed with abundance, and the land has not yet been put to its utmost test. There is still a margin, for shipments of food to the U.S.'s allies, for replacement of oils which once came from the Far East. Agriculture Secretary Claude R. Wickard, who had announced the greatest farm program in history only last September, has revised his goals and announced others still bigger. This year the land will be asked for more & more of its wealth. And the land will respond...
After victories over M. I. T., Northeastern, and Brown the Yardlings suffered their only loss at the hands of Exeter by a one-basket margin. Next on the schedule is Tufts on February 4 and then eight more games before the contests with Dartmouth, Dean Academy, and Yale which McCoy is pointing...