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...Houses, Eliot, Lowell, and Dunster, are built in truly luxurious style, Eliot being reputed to have cost $3,000,000. The other Houses, made over from what used to be the Freshman Halls, are not quite so well appointed but many have added advantages, such as the swimming pool of Adams House or a particularly good tutorial staff, which make them equally attractive...
...They mounted rapidly and closed with substantial gains for the day. Thereafter they swung up and down, but neither sudden disaster nor abrupt boom followed. Cause of the arrested fall was guesswork. Some attributed it to talk of the formation of a $50,000,000 to $75,000,000 pool (President Peter B. Carey of the Board of Trade admitted a pool had been discussed) to buy up "distress grain" which threatened the market-the holdings of speculators caught in the July break. Others attributed the fall to the price peg, its arrest to removal of the peg. For, they...
...saluted as "Tom" and "Joe" and '"Harry." A car sped him to Krum Elbow, the estate of his mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt, who was on hand to greet her son. The Vincent Astors dropped in for luncheon and in the afternoon the President went swimming in his outdoor pool. Determined to be a country squire taking his ease, for the week-end at least, he refused to receive telephone calls even from members of his Cabinet...
...fact that gasoline in his State has jumped from 12? to 22½? a gallon in the past month, Governor Martin of Washington filed suit against 17 oil companies last week, challenging their right to do business in the State, charging them with conspiracy in forming a monopolistic pool and demanding the appointment of a receiver to take over their Washington properties. Included" in the charge were Standard Oil of California, Richfield, Shell, Texas Corp...
...Moreover, Britain's Imperial Airways, Germany's Luft Hansa, France's Aeropostale, Holland's K. L. M., all have bid for a part in any prospective service. Since the surveying job is bigger than any single agency could afford, all interested parties have agreed to pool their findings. Thus into the pot go the charts made by Pan American, by the British Arctic Air Route Expedition and by Germany's Von Gronau in the north; and by Imperial Airways at Bermuda, Aeropostale at the Azores, where France got exclusive operating privileges from Portugal. Imperial...