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...Harvard mentor had not decided last night whom to use on the mound. The impressive record of the visitors, including an it does a 6 to 5 win over the Harvard Graduates may force him to use Devens: if net, he will work Sprague. The Rhode Island outfit will have Martynick, one of its four veterans, tooing the plate. This man pitched against the Crimson last year and lost by a score...
...Hugo Zucchini. In spite of doctors' objections Sigñor Zacchini climbs into the mouth of a huge cannon mounted on a motor truck, smears himself with soot, is propelled by compressed air 150 ft into a net as a big firecracker goes...
Last week Postal's parent, International Telephone & Telegraph, made its 1931 report. Salient points: 1) Net income: $7,654,000 against $13,750,000. 2) Telephones in the system provided 59% of the gross revenue, increased from 688,000 to 769,000. Of the gain 50,000 was from acquisition of the Rumanian system. 3) I. T. & T.'s telephone business is distributed as follows: South America, 534%, Asia, 3.2%, Europe, 27.9%, North America (Mexico) 7.8%, West Indies...
Steel & Dumping. Bethlehem Steel Corp., which in good times makes less money than U. S. Steel Corp., last week reported a first quarter net loss of $3,685,000 against "Big Steel's" spectacular loss of $13,218,000. Bethlehem Steel surprised Wall Street by ordering the regular $1.75 quarterly dividend on the preferred ($1,645,000) but investors seemed to take an omission next time for granted. The preferred sold at $38 to yield...
...Earnings and profits are comparatively low. The average gross amount earned by the individual students who reported was only $211, and the net amount cleared was $94. The average amount earned per hour was only 51 cents and the average individual profit per hour over expenses 21 cents. Those facts seriously challenge the claims made by certain of these companies that canvassing of this nature yields a higher return than other kinds of summer employment...