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Fall rowing reached a new peak of popularity this year with over 270 oarsmen participating at Newell Boat House alone. Bert Haines has seven out of eight men in his championship 150-Ib. boat which went to England this summer. Spike Chace will be sorely missed in the varsity rowing this year, but Tom Bolles has four veterans-back from his last year's boat which was undefeated. Harvey Love has as good a turnout for fall rowing as he had last year and that's saying something...
...Peak sales come on football week-ends, with alumni and transients doing much of the buying. Local liquor men are peeved that the Yale game is away this year. They count on old Eli to kick in with plenty. As for which Houses are the biggest consumers of bottled sunshine, no one seems to know. "They all buy plenty," said one old-timer. "Adams, Lowell, Leverett, Wigglesworth, Adams...
...also contributed to the din of reviving times. Carloadings hit a 1938 high of 726,612-23,000 above the previous week but still 79,000 under the same week year ago. Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins reported that placements by the U. S. Employment Service reached a new peak in September, while applications fell for the first time in a year. Steel, power and cotton textile output were up. Two fat refunding issues went to a premium in Wall Street. Spurred by General Motors, stocks climbed to new 1938 levels...
Excess bank reserves climbed to $3,270,000,000, next-to-highest total on record. In short, the supply of money had never been so plentiful. And when bank clearings reached a 1938 peak and bank debits rose a whopping $1,000,000,000 in the last two weeks, it was clear that the public was using that money supply...
...town of Ahoskie, N. C. in 1882, graduated by Pittsburgh University in 1906, from its law school in 1909, he grubbed at the law until he got stock in the Pittsburgh Courier for drawing its charter, later got control and built its circulation up from 50,000 to a peak of 187,000 by plugging Equal Rights, Joe Louis, Haile Selassie and Franklin Roosevelt...