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...result of the Senior Class Elections held yesterday and the day before, John DeQuedville Briggs Jr. of St. Paul, Minnesota, was elected Permanent Class Secretary. Briggs, a former president of the CRIMSON, was winner in a close election, the deciding margin being one of six votes. The total poll at the election was 258 votes, which is about a dozen less than the total of last year's elections...
...apart. When Pilot Bayles landed his average speed had apparently smashed the world's landplane record of 278.4 m. p. h., held by France. On one lap he was checked at 295.86. Final calculations, however, gave him an average of only 281.9, less than the 4.97 margin allowed him to receive official credit. Moreover, no record would have been allowed because the timing camera failed to show his plane passing the pylon at the end of the final lap. Few days later he tried again, crashed to death...
...long pass from Wood and carried the ball over the goal line to score the winning touchdown in the last minutes of the Dartmouth game, and earlier, in the first half, by blocking a Dartmouth try-for-point kick, he left open for Harvard a final one-point margin of victory. Continuing, Coach Casey said, "The new captain played especially well against Army, showing his speed in following up kicks and receiving passes and in his offensive game, although opposed by John Price, an unusually fast and heavy player. I was also very much pleased by his work...
...there is too much coal. In the U. S., which is seamed with 45% of the world's reserve, 31 States mine coal, probably five more are underlaid with it. This brings about inevitable complications. Coal operators cut each others' throats, often selling their product below the margin of a safe return on their investment. The real pain of the trouble is transmitted to the miners, who strike, riot, threaten, starve in the throes of wretched living conditions and inadequate wages. Since 1919 this has been the condition, steadily growing graver, in an industry which is capitalized...
Here were some major factors that were whittling away the profit margin from the coal business...