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...currently common, uncomplimentary terms for Jew, apparently too modern for Roget's are: hebe (collegiate and journalese), kike (general). Cleveland Jews call Cleveland Heights, where many co-religionists reside, "Kike's Peak...
...Englishmen came, applied cold geological calculations to the possibility of ascent, exploded the monster forever. Since then the Matterhorn has often been scaled, though hundreds have perished in the attempts. Last week an American, Leon Goodrich of Manhattan, set a record by climbing from a low outstation to the peak and back...
Lords Ailsa and Cassillis in their opinion of life on St. Kilda. A tiny peak of rock in the North Atlantic, 40 miles west of North Uist in the Outer Hebrides, it is stormbound for eight months of the year. No trees can grow there, no cats can live there, no horses, no rabbits, no rats. The St. Kildans (a population of 30 to 100 has lived there for centuries) speak nothing but Gaelic, do not bother to shear their wild sheep but pull the wool out by the fistful. They live on potatoes and sea birds. In winter, when...
...stocks of the type we have in our portfolio will on the average have regained in market value 60% to 70% of the loss sustained last autumn.* By the end of 1931, or at any rate, of 1932, I expect the average to have, perhaps, even attained the 1929 peak again." Steel. Although Iron Age's prices of finished products are at the lowest since 1922, firmer scrap steel prices are encouraging. The industry as a whole is operating at 54%, against this
According to the Census Bureau, 2% of the total U. S. population was jobless. Mississippi and South Dakota tied for low score with only ½% of their inhabitants unemployed. Joblessness reached its peak in Michigan where 3.3% could not find work. New York, with the largest jobless list (364,617), was 2.9% idle. Computations of unemployment on the basis of total populations have been seriously criticized on the ground that they do not show the true relation between workers and those seeking work. Census estimators unofficially figured that the number of unemployed was 5.2% of the gainful workers-that...