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...gold in the new dollar. Thus if the gold content of the dollar is legally cut in half the Reserve Banks' gold certificates will call for only half as much gold as they will give up to the Treasury. The other half of the gold will be a "profit" belonging to the U. S. Government. Although the President claimed he already had authority to take this step, he asked that a special law be passed stamping it with Congressional approval. 3) To have Congress immediately specify that the dollar, when revalued, shall be revalued at not more than...
...pound less than the Government was paying; that the Postmaster General forced him to sell out to American Airways-which he did at a $500,000 profit. ¶Hainer Hinshaw, onetime American Airways lobbyist, said Postmaster Brown had induced his company to agree not to bid on the proposed Savannah-Atlanta-Memphis-Tulsa route, since the Postoffice wanted to "take care of" Robertson Air Lines, which had been crudely frozen out of a St. Louis-New Orleans contract by one of the American Airways extensions. ¶Daniel Miller Sheaffer, executive of Pennsylvania Railroad and T. A. T., had an uncomfortable...
...interested by Mr. Harkness' statements in the CRIMSON in regard to our tutorial system. I agree with him in his opinion that the system should not be limited to honor students. There are too many others who profit by it. However, it is evident that the present situation here is satisfactory to neither tutors nor students. The main reason is that there are too many tutees who have been thrown into the plan against their own inclinations and who therefore rebel against the work. A man who comes to college should be old enough to know how much time...
Thus, the calibre of the tutees would be raised, not perhaps in ability but in what is more important to the success of the system, the desire of the student to profit by it. Allen M. Ferry...
...hides make shoes, baseballs; cat hides which once became ladies' neckpieces, now vanish darkly into the Orient. Skinned carcasses are dumped in a big "digester," steamed to draw out fat. This is used for rough lubricating grease. Defatted remains are dried, ground up for fertilizer. Concessionaires pocket the profit...