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...interested in viewing the poor "always studious," "always hard up," "drably" dressed students who eke out "drab" lives under the "stern"-pardon me-"the large, stern" shadow of Mary E. Woolley. It is a pitiful case. I never realized what the four years in which cramming for quizzes was offset by weekends in New York and Boston, dances, dates, athletics, horse shows, class entertainments, concerts, lectures, movies, dramatics, pageants, sleigh rides, carnivals (must I continue?) really meant. . . . E. VIRGINIA GRIMES...
...domination has caused some big consumers (notably General Motors) to keep their aluminum consumption at an irreducible minimum. Mr. Bohn pointed out last week that if his new process breaks Aluminum Co.'s longstanding control of the raw metal, damage to that company will probably be offset by more widespread use of aluminum, since manufacturers will have the reassurance of two sources instead...
...offset the tremendous empty mileage developed by this system, the American Railway Association ruled that each railroad should load idle foreign cars in preference to system cars destined for other tracks. Several railroads have "frozen" per diem agreements providing a fixed penalty period for foreign cars, usually from three to five days. Thus, foreign cars may be held, with a maximum penalty charge of $3 to $5 per car, pending such loading as may be in prospect. Empty hauls are thus substantially reduced...
...increased by dispensing with their nursing schools and hiring graduate nurses at $50 a month and keep to do the bedside duties now performed by student nurses. For the menial duties of the student nurse the hospital would engage regular servants at $40 a month, the cost being offset by closing down its nursing school...
Thus the "national strike of textile workers" remained a question mark. Last week President Roosevelt ordered NRA to cut the hours of cotton garment workers (not to be confused with cotton textile workers) from 40 to 36 per week and grant a wage increase of 10 to 11% to offset the shorter hours. United Textile Workers talked of winning a similar cut from 40 to 30 hours without reduction in pay, but few people believed that NRA would dare impose such an extra burden on the cotton textile industry. Much of the industry itself did not even care...