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...final quarter the Adams House offense started to gain ground, but their final threat was stopped when Kirkland's left half back, Alan O'Kelley, intercepted a pass...
Capture of Jaca would not only give the Leftists control of two of these lines, tremendous advantage should France make good her repeated threat to open the frontier for volunteers and munitions, but it would also make a flank attack on the Rightist stronghold of Saragossa possible. To Generalissimo Franco the threat to Jaca had an even gloomier significance: it meant that the Aragon Front, consistently the quietest sector in the entire war, had been kicked into action by the energetic Negrin Government at Valencia. It meant that undisciplined malingering Leftist militiamen who had been quite content to play football...
Never did Exeter present a serious threat to the Harvard goal line. Only once was the scrimmage line inside the Harvard 20-yard line, that being the occasion on which Exeter gained two points with a safety...
World consumption of cotton for the twelve months ending in July was 30,700,000 bales, up 4,500,000 from the previous twelvemonth. A similar increase in world consumption this year would gobble most of the bumper crop. War is the chief threat, as was shown last week when Japan, best U. S. cotton customer, stopped buying it in order to conserve her gold. Brokers were quick to remember that cotton prices broke at the onset of the World War, then rose to a thumping 30? a lb. Hopes for increase in domestic consumption were dim last week. Anticipating...
...weakness like that of last week, the restriction that affects the market most is regulation of operations of insiders in stocks of their own companies. Officials and big shareholders used to step into the market when their stocks looked cheap, thus providing an important stabilizing influence. Today with the threat of law suits always present, the average insider would rather speculate in any stock than the one he knows best. Purpose of restriction on inside trading, like that of all the New Deal's securities regulations, was to make the market safe for the true investor. Violent and unjustified...