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...federal reserve banks, and this in turn, is the result of a decrease in federal reserve notes in circulation and a large increase in gold reserves. With the increase of credit comes the decline of money rates and a strong banking position, a strong bid for an upward trend...
...retard business activity, when both sides are compared it is most probable that 1922 will be a year of easier money, better business, more stable prices, and higher profits than was 1921; and there is evidence, also, that the general movement of business and wholesale prices will be upward. There is no reason, however, to anticipate a boom...
That such a hierarchy of sport should be found at any college is only to be expected. The standing of any particular activity is measured by its popularity more than the popularity by its standing. When upward of fifty thousand people will crowd to see a football game, naturally enough that branch of athletics will be the most important, and the man who plays it a dominant figure...
...business is again on a normal basis, and traffic again moves in the volume contemplated by the rate scale set last year by the Interstate Commerce Commission. The signs already point to an improvement. There are indications that the worst is over and that there will soon be an upward swing. Until it is well under way, however, there seems to be nothing for the railroads to do but to continue and extend their economies, get such relief as is possible through liquidation in labor costs, tighten up their belts and hold on until traffic revives. It may be that...
...living expenses has now pronounced a reduction of ten per-cent in order. The workers, however, reply as usual with a demand for shorter hours at the increased pay. The exorbitant cost of production is eventually passed on to the purchase, and the price of books soars steadily upward. When publishers are forced to curtail the printing of textbooks because they can not sell enough to make one edition profitable, college students may well take alarm at modern labor conditions...