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...contemplating bankruptcy. The stock tumbled from $8.75 a share to $3.50. Within a few hours the reports were denied, the stock snapped back to $7.50. The New York Stock Exchange promptly started an investigation. But there was real ammunition for bearish rail operators in the fact that Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific did slip into bankruptcy, and Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe cut its preferred dividend from $5 to $3, first reduction since 1901. Bullish operators joked about Baltimore & Ohio's new-found source of revenue: leasing a locomotive to a Pittsburgh brewery as an auxiliary boiler...
...woman from the back of the group said. 'There are no such distinctions here. We are all one and either we all come forward or no one will come forward.' . . . And so in a few minutes, after a consultation of those Hindu priests on that altar rock, the priest came down among us and offered to us their sacred Hindu food-to Hindu, to orthodox, to outcaste, to Mohammedan, and to Christian they offered the Hindu food...
With a good deal more seriousness than would have been evidenced at a similar meeting three or four years ago, the young ladies of the Junior League last week held their annual national conference in Philadelphia. There were luncheons and a visit to socialite Mrs. Richard Haughton's rock gardens, but for the most part the session had the aspect of a four-day retreat for political education...
...have had several scrim mages with the Varsity and the Myopia Club. while the Blue has lost to Yale Freshmen 2.3, but won over Medford 7.2 Harvard's Poloists will be E. E. R. Gerry '36, Peter Jay '36, R. A. Gerry '36, while Andover will use Brown Fletcher, Rock, and Krubree...
Andes-Consolidated Virginia Mining Co. lately bought an old house for $150, last week set unemployed miners to wreck it for firewood. One afternoon a wrecker rushed to the superintendent of the mine carrying a hunk of rock. It was silver ore, assaying $500 a ton. Hastily a small shaft was 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...