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...appear, barring a broken leg on Green's part. There is an outside possibility of Donovan crashing through here, but only the Dartmouth fans really expect it. Then comes the broad jump, where one jump should be enough for Milt to top the 23-foot mark by a considerable margin and win the event...
...avenues of escape--increased revenue or adulterated quality. In pursuance of the policy of satisfactory meals, Mr. Durant has been forced to boost the price in order to maintain the present standard of food without dipping into other pockets of the University. The president increase will allow the same margin of safety as that which existed in the past two years when approximately $40,000 was cleared, a margin of approximately 4%. On an estimated total of well over $900,000 it is approaching folly to shave this margin when the University makes no provision for losses in the Dinning...
...unable to cope with the flashy attack staged by Captain Bill Nash and Cliff Wolff of their opponents. It was in the early stages of the game that these two rolled up most of their combined 31 points. At the half-way mark Columbia enjoyed a comfortable 21-12 margin...
...Reynolds Tobacco made $23,896,000 in 1935 as against $21,536,000 in 1934. Considering the generally reduced profit margin in tobacco, the $2,300,000 profit increase could have resulted only from greatly increased Camel sales. Estimates put the Camel volume at about 37,000,000,000 cigarets, compared to about 32,000,000,000 each for Lucky Strikes and Chesterfields...
Meantime Chairman Eccles is trying out another set of brakes, which are designed to control a specific kind of credit -stockmarket credit. Under the Securities Exchange Act the Reserve Board was given the power to regulate margin requirements. Fortnight ago, sensing the growing speculative fever, Chairman Eccles upped maximum margin requirements from 45% to 55% (TIME, Feb. 3). Some bankers believe that even if the Board shut down, as it can. on all market credit, a fancy boom could occur on a cash basis. Their point is that while credit may be shut off at one spigot it might still...