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...start: the sound as they soar, an octave-upward slur...
Importation of culture can never produce the intellectual morale that is bred by the slow internal growth of an integrated department in any field of knowledge. Mr. Conant can afford the university a plethora of great names, but unless the upward trend of the curricula is such as to foster their development within the ranks of the undergraduate and graduate body, the situation admits of defeat. Great benefit is obviously derived from collected outside talent, but greater benefit would accrue from creating at least some few of the giants by from within. Aside from the patently mechanized deficiencies...
...Jones industrial stock averages, the low point of the Depression was July 8, 1932. On that day the famed stockmarket index sank below 42, lowest level since 1897. After a deal of marching and countermarching in the last days of Herbert Hoover, the stock-market burst upward in the wild inflationary bull market of 1933, and, just before the boom in whiskey shares collapsed that summer, the averages...
...March it began to recover from the deep gloom of winter, and by late last month was shooting swiftly toward the old critical point of 108-110. There for a fortnight it wavered uncertainly. Last week in a sudden surge of heavy trading the Dow-Jones average was thrust upward to 114-highest level since...
...Odium's theories hew close to the British tradition. Last week, apparently satisfied that "the upward trend could be seen with greater clarity." the young, sandy-haired financier made U. S. financial history by offering'to underwrite two big issues of new Paramount Publix Corp. securities. Under the film company's plan of reorganization, already approved by security-holders and the courts, Paramount's old stockholders will be offered a smaller amount of new shares in exchange for their present holdings and also the right to buy more. The Atlas offer, which Paramount swiftly accepted...