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Depression has meant a terrific deflation of students' incomes, and a similar deflation of the return upon the University's invested endowments. The increased demand for scholarships has been faced with a dwindling supply of funds. Scholarship funds declined from the peak of $196,000 reached in 1930 to $168,000, a sum which was distributed to 547 of the 1,000 eligible applicants...
...shop motor industry. With automobile manufacturers heading into their best season in years, and profits definitely in sight. Labor's bargaining position was all but ideal. Now if ever the automobile companies could be forced to recognize the A. F. of L. under pain of strike at the peak of production. (2) No less firmly braced were the heads of the automobile industry against allowing their business, whatever the cost, to fall into the clutches of organized labor. With them, too, it was now or never to stand and fight the A. F. of L. Left to themselves both...
Official figures on the evening use of the Widener Library reading room for the first month since it was opened show an average of 61 men an evening, with a peak, attendance of 32. The number of books called for averaged 293, the books kept overnight 91, and the number of men admitted to the stacks...
Such ominous predictions last week accompanied President Roosevelt's determined effort to demobilize the Civil Works program by May 1. Already the CWA payroll had been cut from its peak to 2,609,500. Further reductions were to follow at the rate of 275,000 a week...
...reach of Federal Reserve control. Call loans are payable on demand, are secured largely by active listed stocks, are practically riskless. During 1929 the interest rate on call loans ranged between 5% and 20%. No good corporation treasurer could overlook that opportunity to use his idle funds. But the peak of all loans to all members of the New York Stock Exchange was $8,500,000,000-just one-half the figure which Inquisitor Pecora said was advanced by one company alone. By his calculations Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey had loaned $17,000,000,000. What Inquisitor Pecora...