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...balance sheet for the Houses, which shows the deficit of over $50,000, does not include the dining halls, which made a profit of $70,000 in the first year of their operation. This sum was not used to make up the deficit for the Houses but was used to furnish funds for the emergency employment program of House...
There is every reason for applicants to attempt to rent rooms of low price as long as the University is making a profit on the Houses; this, however, they are not doing. Last year the net deficit to the University on the account of the Houses was something over $53,000; next year, it will be somewhat larger because of the reduction in rents. In view of this, a partial solution to the problem is obvious, if a trifle Utopian: those who can afford more than the maximum set down on their applications should signify that capability. The other side...
...driven into the ground nearby; mining engineers rushed from San Francisco. The discovery of a "lost bonanza" was confirmed. Once more Virginia City was a boom town. Piute squaws came down out of the hills. Divorcees in fur coats motored over from Reno. But no lucky prospector stood to profit. The mineral rights of the whole area have long belonged to great mining companies...
...that the subject matter was not written by college professors. No matter how dull the lectures, no matter how deadening the interpretations of section men, one cannot read a selection of the greatest examples of prose and poetry in the English language without a deal of pleasure and profit. For the man who has no pronounced literary interests, for the man who does not know what has been written that is good, or for the man who will not read unless he has been forced into doing it, English 28 is worth taking. For others, it is decidedly...
Many such boomlets had been reported off & on during the Depression. Traders looked for profit-taking-some of which took place. But in last week's bullishness there was more than a mere hope because prices and indices had shown a little upturn. There was the beginning of the attitude: what now if not inflation? Either inflation because commodity prices would be turned upward by natural and governmental stimuli; or inflation because the Government is committed to spending billions, must float bond issues to reopen banks, save mortgagors, provide relief and a dozen other costly enterprises. Or inflation because...