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High in the Andes, Chile and the Brothers Guggenheim are in business together digging nitrates from a vast arid plain. Their company, Cosach, was a major political issue in Chile last autumn and the Brothers Guggenheim were threatened with eviction (TIME, Sept. 14; Nov. 23). Last week smiling new President Juan Esteban Montero ignored a previous commission's philippic which demanded Cosach's dissolution,, and issued through his Minister of Finance a favorable report. Cosach was glad to hear it. The company needed money and could not get it while the inquiry in Chile was under...
...Democratic stronghold, no candidate is more impregnable. Roosevelt will be handicapped neither by the religious or dripping wet sentiments which ruined his predecessor. Owen D. Young is a symbol of that ogre, "Corporation," which is usually delirium tremens to the voter; Ritchie is too wet to appeal to the arid West and South; Baker is disliked in too many quarters; there is no one else...
...That the present U. S. Lines, Inc. will be taken over by a newly formed holding unit, U. S. Lines Co., chartered a fortnight ago in arid Nevada. This holding company will be owned 50-50 by the New York and San Francisco groups...
...District Court in Trenton, N. J., last week presided Judge George M. Bourquin, 68, who had just come from the arid State of Montana. He was trying a Bloomfield bootlegger...
...thousand bedraggled horses last week limped in herds through the San Carlos Indian reservation, an arid section of Arizona. They searched for water but found death. No one owned them, or wanted to own them. They were scrawny, bigheaded beasts, physically degenerate. Practically every one of the 10,000 was infected with dourine...