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...high, bond yields so low. The previous high was around 1900, when high-grade issues sold to yield something less than 4%. At that time the best opinion was that low interest rates would continue for the first two decades of the 20th Century. The experts were dead wrong. Interest rates rose and bond prices fell almost without interruption until the post-War depression. Through most of the 1920's bonds climbed steadily, then started to fall again when money tightened during the last purple days of the stockmarket boom. The present rise dates from 1932, bonds as usual...
Things seemed to be breaking right for Chris till he had a row with Beverly's father, then a row with Beverly. She went abroad, got herself engaged to the wrong man. After her marriage Chris tried to drown himself in work. He went abroad for a few months' study in Vienna, marrying Katie and taking her along, not because he wanted her but because she nagged him into it. She soon got tired of him, and he was glad to leave her for the War. Back home again, he became a hardworking, successful surgeon, an aging Spartan...
That the present administration should see fit to let this Graduate School die in the face of such a demand for its product and in view of the unique opportunities Harvard has developed since 1909, even though it is admitted that prosperity is still sulking on the wrong side of the corner, is defensible only on the grounds of absolute inability to scrape up the necessary funds...
...whose editor had evidently not seen the film : "Two reservations occur to the impartial mind. First, any film out of America dealing with British policy and action is likely to be colored with a strong anti-British twist, for in the United States this country is always in the wrong. Secondly, peace is questionably served by pictures which make a crude appeal not to any moral instinct, but to physical fear...
...effects of tremendous overproduction from new mills. Container met price cut with price cut, depending on big sales volume to make money. President Paepcke thought that quantity would be his company's salvation. But to conservative Boxmaker Brunt, whose credo was quality, the Paepcke policy seemed all wrong. Stubborn, he started a proxy fight to oust his young boss, lost in 1931. Accepting a lump-sum settlement for his salary contract, Brunt...