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Terrestrial gravitation, acting unequally on unequal masses, may produce downward thrusts. But are there not forces beyond Earth causing upward thrusts? Professor Watts last week reminded his hearers that Earth is not alone in space but is clutched at by the gravitational pulls of its celestial companions...
...entry of the House of Morgan into the securities business (see below) and pegging of Canadian wheat at 87½¢ per bu. General Motors reported a striking sales gain in August over July. General Electric boosted its quarterly 15¢ dividend to 20¢. Furthermore, the stockmarket had already resumed its upward surge two days before the President's letter was published...
...trotting contains almost no other kind and a driver with less than 20 years experience is rarely seen on first-rate tracks. Famed Pop Geers was only one of many who drove for more than 50 years. Trotting drivers ordinarily start as stable boys, work slowly upward through the stages of being grooms, second-trainers, and finally trainer-drivers with public stables of their own. Most good drivers train the horses which they drive. They wear not the owner's colors but their own. A trainer usually gets $100 per month for each horse in his stable, clear...
...twelve short stories in All The. Young Men deal with Indians, are cut precisely in the pattern of Author La Farge's novels (Sparks Fly Upward, Laughing Boy}. Tall Walker, handsome Apache hero of "Hard Winter," went about his prolonged singing and dancing during a fiesta with all the enjoyment and absorption of a business man playing golf. At Taos, a white woman, fascinated by literary legends of the noble redman, made him her lover. When winter came and his wife on the reservation had trouble with the sheep and a sick child, Tall Walker was glad...
...President Roosevelt wanted. Then Power scored twice in quick succession. For drastic Section 11 the House Interstate Commerce Committee substituted a milder regulatory measure, directing SEC to limit each holding company's operations to one integrated public-utility system. When a poll of House Democrats showed the Administration upward of 30 votes shy of a majority to sustain the Senate's action, President Roosevelt demanded a record vote on the House floor so he could see which Democrats were with him and which were against him. The House Rules Committee turned his request down flat...