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...came across some interesting statistics in the Syracuse Orange. "Fifty five percent of the students have paid their tuition; forty percent deferred it; and five per cent are football players." Just what does this mean? -- Brown Herald
...Districts. Each would buy one share of the common stock, have one vote. Then the Corporation was authorized to issue up to $1,000,000,000 of debentures at par, and all banks in the country were requested to subscribe to the debentures in an amount up to 2 percent of their deposits. Before Wednesday morning dawned, New York banks, who hold $7,500,000.000 of the country's total $51,000,000,000 bank deposits, had spoken boldly through their Clearing House. They would take, they said, $150,000,000 of the debentures...
...very much in favor of this. You will never have to worry about the football boys; they will come to the front. We would be very glad to cooperate to the fullest extent. I would like to see a certain percentage of the gate receipts, one or two percent, go to scholarships of both universities, because the pressure from within is as great as that from without." Captain A. J. Booth, when shown Steven's statement, said, "I am right with Steve on that...
...nature of an attractive afterthought, President Swope included in his plan "a provision ... to place domestic corporations of the sort described on a parity with foreign competition." Companies exporting might deduct from their Federal income tax the equivalent of X percent of its export sales, "this X percent deemed to be the equivalent in selling price of the various provisions for the benefit of employes which the company must make under this plan and from which some foreign companies which the domestic companies have to meet in competition are free...
...Department of Agriculture last week estimated the 1931 cotton crop at 15.684,000 bales as compared with 13,932,000 last year. Despite a 10 percent cut in acreage (TIME, July 20) excellent weather conditions had produced a crop yielding 85 Ib. per acre, 31 Ib. above average and the highest since 1914. This forecast rocked the exchanges of the land, sent cotton prices tumbling $7.50 a bale...