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...paid back over 25% of the $5,000,000.000 it has lent in two years. A quarter-billion dollars has been repaid since Jan.1 and Jesse Jones intimated last week that repayments would take care of the additional amounts to be lent until next July. Consequently RFC's net drain on the Treasury is likely to fall one to one and a half billion below the President's estimate. Big repayers to RFC have been banks, who have turned back 57% of the $1,533,000,000 lent to them...
...second week of the school year which means that the great number of students who must work during the summer have only two weeks in which to read the works of two Ancient Authors, eight books of the Bible, and a number of Shakespeare's plays. The net result is that this important and interesting phase of the field is neglected almost completely, and the examinations instead of stimulating breadth of view, become another of the annoying duties attendant upon the gaining of a degree. In order to give these studies their proper significance the examinations should be split into...
...surplus. "This is not a hard-times stopgap," said President Wrigley. "The idea is to give employes the same 'backlog' of income that stockholders have in the surplus of the company." Wrigley Co. surplus at the end of 1933 was $34,599,000; the company's net earnings last year were $7,528,000, half a million better than...
...little shovels, and hard, heavy balls. During the 16th Century, the game was so popular that people said there were more court-tennis players in Paris than ale-drinkers in England. One Englishman, Henry VIII, liked it so much that he had a court, with benches in the dedans (netted opening in the wall) for his courtiers, built into Hampton Court. Court-tennis has preserved its prestige at the price of its popularity. Henry VIII's benches are still in existence but they are now in the New York Racquet & Tennis Club, which owns one of the twelve court...
...latest innovation was almost the first man Rolls-Royce of America ever hired. John Swanel Inskip began selling Rolls-Royces in 1922. Grey-haired, affable, popular, he was elected president in 1929 just before the lean Rolls' years began. Best Rolls' year was 1926 when the net profit was $524,000. Poorest was 1931. when its deficit reached $745,000. No dividend has ever been paid on the common stock (controlled by Rolls-Royce, Ltd. of England), whereas unpaid cumulative dividends on the preferred now total $78.75 per share. Last week there was no Brewster in Brewster...