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Unknown Like dolphins, like dolphins can swim May 30, 1925 Miss Florence Skadding and H.J. McMullan. Opening of pool at Columbia Country Club, Chevy Chase, Maryland Ilargi: I'm sure you saw that the Shanghai Composite Index dropped a major league 6.7% last night, right? Well, it did, sort of, as in yes and no. You see, Shanghai nights -and days- have their limits. berg says: At least 150 stocks on the 898-member index dropped by the daily 10 percent limit The Shanghai In
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Esther Bubley War Worker January 1943 War workers at home, Washington, D.C. "A radio is company for this girl in her boardinghouse room" Ilargi: It's often as amusing as it is surprising to me how readers react when I quote people who are perceived as being right-wing. My view is quite rudimentary: I’m not interested in the dividing lines in politics, but since I think a society needs to take care of its weakest, simply to survive, the only wing I seem to have is a left one. I als
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Around 80 commercial banks, chartered in the St. Louis region, had made up $66 million in profits, by this time last year. This year they have recorded $169 million in losses. The main cause behind the downfall is bad loans, as the real estate problems spread from residential to commercial real estate. Bad loans, which can also be called nonperforming loans, increased 69% to $1.05 billion in the first six months, from $620 million a year earlier. According to The Federal Reserve Ban
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The role that train travel plays in the American popular imagination is an increasingly contradictory one these days, somehow deeply nostalgic and symbolic of the future at the same time. Getting from one city to another by train remains a thoroughly romanticized exercise — a humane relic of a more cosmopolitan and energy-efficient era in transportation. And yet trains have also become a key component of efforts by young planners, architects and politicians to re-imagine or revivify American ur
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