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...eight men, and are all set on that score to pass and run. Offensive blocking has been improved the last ten days, as well as new assignments mastered. Since the Penn game, second of the year, the defense has yielded an average of only slightly over 100 yards net gain per game...
Harvard took the lead at the beginning against a heavily favored Spring field eleven, but early in the second period Munro, of Springfield, took a corner kick on his head and popped it into the net. Thereafter Springfield held the edge in the game, scoring a second goal in the fourth period...
...high of 92.3% of capacity. To this statistic U. S. Steel Corp., world's largest industrial organization, bellwether of steel production and of New York stockmarket prices, last week gave the retort direct, by declaring its first dividend on common stock in five years. It announced net income for the first nine months of 1937 as $90,852,853 (after deduction of $4,500,000 for undistributed profits taxation) which amounts, after preferred stock dividends, to $8.26 for each of the 8,703,252 common shares. So Big Steel's directors voted to pay $1 per share...
...from the factory at 25% below retail prices, a practice standard in the industry. Thus a $1,000 car costs a dealer $750. Out of the $250 difference a dealer must pay his overhead and clear a profit. So far this year Buick dealers, according to Bill Hufstader, have netted twice as much money as last. Makers are cagey about mentioning dealer profits, but Buick dealers probably average about $78 net for every $1,000 in sales, not counting a 20% reserve for used car losses. With 2,000,000 Buicks now in service, Buick hopes to sell...
Sure enough, one evening after the New York Stockmarket's closing gong the I. C. C. announced a favorable decision. Remarking that "net earnings of the railroads are now inconsistent, in general, not only with constitutional standards as to the rights of private owners, but also with the conditions necessary for the proper conduct of the public service of railroad transportation by private enterprise," the I. C. C. authorized rate increases expected to yield some $47,500,000 more revenue per year...