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Music, whose 43 adherents prefer it in various stages from "swing" to "symphony," leads al the other hobbies by a considerable margin. Photography with 15 runs fourth. Skiing and ping pong with 22 and 18 carry off second and third places, respectively, while chess and radio tie for fifth position, with 18 followers each...
...question, "Resolved: That this house support the Loyalist Government in Spain," defeating the negative speaker, Merwin K. Hart, Jr. '40, by an audience vote of 17 to 9. A second show of hands revealed that the audience's sympathies lay with the Leftists by a ten vote margin...
Last week, as it is likely to be for some time, major influence upon the New York stock market were the inspirational efforts of Washington. Three weeks ago, when the Federal Reserve Board reduced margin requirements, prices rose in the best weekly rally since the smash started. Then they fell back. By early last week the Dow-Jones industrial averages had set a new low of 123.9. Railroads at 31.7 and utilities at 21.3 were almost at their bottoms...
...That is not only the correct version but it also rings true. Coach Pond is worried to death over the traditional contest which may be a close game with a narrow margin of victory. In an exclusive statement to a well-attended interview he said, "Following my instructions Yale will use a deceptive offense and an iron defense. Our line will be: two Ends, two Tackles, a pair of Guards, and a hard Center." Neither coach will hazard a prediction, but both men flatly deny rumors...
...almost infallible index of future steel operations since more than half of steel production is melted scrap, dropped 25? to $14.75 a ton, compared with $22 in mid-August. Dun & Bradstreet reported that retail trade was still from 4% to 15% above 1936 but by a steadily narrowing margin maintained in some cases by price cutting. Freight car loadings were off to 771,655 cars, 5% less than for the same week of 1936. In Lawrence, Mass., the world's largest factory of its kind, Pacific Print Works, shut down for ten days along with all other textile firms...