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...Voice did not answer, and on the Democratic side, foxy little Field Marshal Simmons began massing his troops behind the Borah irregulars to capture perhaps not only Flexible Tariff Ridge but some of the industrial salients-Chateau de Steel, Fort Cement, Brickopolis, Woolensville, perhaps even Manufacturing City...
With the near completion of the steel stands enclosing the Stadium, figures announced yesterday by the Athletic Association show an unexpected saving of $15,000, according to the estimates of W. J. Bingham '16, Director. Originally planned at a cost of $170,000 the steel stands over the running track and enclosing the open end of the Stadium, will now probably come to no more than the total...
...surplus now composes a round total of approximately $600,000 although this figure will be cut somewhat by the expenditure of $166,000 for the steel construction of the second floor of the gymnasium authorized by the Corporation after an eleventh hour decision last spring...
...seems as though, despite the valiant efforts of the H. A. A., the surplus is doomed to continue on its upward path. Thanks to the failure of the steel stands to produce the estimated expense of $170,000., rather miserably letting the association down with a mere bill for $155,000., and to the fact that other items of expenditure have failed to come through as expected, the surplus, a several headed hydra, looms more ominously than ever to puzzle the minds of corporation potentates...
Despite numerous running expenses, despite the expense of such improvements as have been made on Soldiers Field, and despite the outlay of thousands of dollars in the construction of steel stands, the H. A. A. still rests with a surplus...