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...encourage the construction of the higher type of vessel suitable for naval auxiliaries of which we are so sorely in need, Senator Ransdell proposes "to allow the Shipping Board to create within the shortest period possible, out of the sale of its assets, at the world's market prices, a fund of $125,000,000, and to loan this money to American shipbuilders at not less than two per cent interest...
...premium; the unorganized miners are making money while fully half the union men are idle. In many places the unions are said to be losing men because of their demands. Furthermore, the coal operators accuse the union of trying to bolster up wages by a non-competitive market, and insist that the retrenching of other industries requires lower priced coal--an impossibility with higher priced labor. So far the operators surely have right on their side. But the contracts call for a conference, and these same operators, by refusing to confer, have thereby taken upon themselves a certain responsibility...
...pressing social and financial conditions caused by the war have caused much stagnation, but in spite of the fact the colleges have received their full quota". Mr. Staub added that since the bottom had dropped out of the Turkish market, the governing boards of the college at Beirut had established scholarship aids to carry on education at this foreign cosmopolitan center, where over 17 nationalities are represented...
...shrilling scream of the close-coming shell; there came to be no more need of stiffening nerves and unruly muscles under a relentless will to "stand the gaff" of the War three years ago. Three years. But today our generation is "fed-up" on War stories. There is no market for tales of the grim days of 'seventeen-'eighteen. Unless indeed the author have something startling, something sensational, something preening itself on what is wellnigh sacrilege. Then indeed the public buys. Then articles are written a guing, pro and con, the merits and demerits of the publication. Yet in most...
...with reverence that one opens the covers of the volumes of the Memoirs of the Harvard Dead in the War Against Germany as, carefully gathered and tenderly compiled by M. A. De Wolfe Howe '88, they appear from time to time. There can be no question here of "market" or "popularity". In its very subject the work justifies its existence. The composite subject is one to move us deeply whether or no we be of Harvard's sons. It is a tale of adventure, a tale of heroism, suffering, of death, dingy, in unlit corners or flaming gorgeously in battle...