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...been recognized as the National League's No. 1 pitcher for the past three seasons. Last year he was voted the League's most valuable player. Last week he got 86,048 votes to 62,201 for his nearest rival, Dizzy Dean. But even Hubbell's margin of popularity was surpassed by that of Vernon ("Lefty") Gomez of the New York Yankees. Gomez' amazing record this season is 13 games won, 3 lost. The Gomez total in last week's poll was 84,712 to 38,327 for Robert Moses Grove...
Lead is a cumulative poison, long exposure to which destroys nerves; makes wrists droop; puts a blue-black margin on the gums; causes colic. Chronic lead poisoning is hard to cure. At the Cleveland meeting of the American Medical Association (TIME, June 25), however, Dr. Irving Gray of Brooklyn recounted his success in expelling lead...
...chalk marks on the butter board have made many a fortune and where some 450 brokers trade eggs as "Fresh Gathered Firsts," "White Standards," "Dirties." Unit of futures trading is a carload lot-300 tubs of butter, about 19,200 lb.; 400 cases of eggs of 30 dozen each. Margin requirement for a carload of butter...
Pleasantest discovery for brokers was that for dozens of stocks the Act's tentative margin requirements were actually lower than those demanded by the New York Stock Exchange. The 45% margin formula had loomed so large that the alternative formula had been almost ignored. The second formula permitted loans up to 100% of the lowest price of the previous three years but not more than 75% of the current price. Though the Act arbitrarily set July i, 1933 as the starting point, a customer could legally trade in a stock like U. S. Steel on a 25% margin...
Peter Hammar was an expert lacemaker, and both he and his wife Hanna worked as hard as they could, but there was no margin of safety in the wages they earned for their growing family. As soon as Erland was old enough to leave school he went to work too, but then Hanna found she was going to have another baby. Other unremarkable misfortunes followed: Peter got blood-poisoning, their furniture was attached for taxes, a general strike made even honest workmen scabs. Their story ends in the midst of the strike, with nothing to lighten the horizon...