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...Chicago's Armour Institute of Technology started a summer course for key industrialists on new developments in defense methods, imported sixteen of the nation's best engineers and scientists as instructors...
...echo these sentiments, in Buenos Aires Argentine Foreign Minister Jose Maria Cantilo, after conferring with U. S. Ambassador Norman Armour, proposed that the Americas make a new declaration of solidarity, stronger than any heretofore. Neutrality, said Minister Cantilo, is a "fiction," a "dead conception." The Americas should adopt an attitude of "nonbelligerency," like Italy's: wholly sympathetic with one belligerent...
...Munitions Ministry's office of Trench Warfare Supplies. There it might have remained until the End of Wars had not his friend, the late Arthur Asquith, discovered it and showed it to Winston Churchill. Impressed, War Lord Churchill offered Walker the post of Expert in Light Armour to the Forces. Dr. Walker declined. "As I remembered that it had taken two years of agitation to induce the military authorities to accept the steel helmet, I . . . returned to my Field Ambulance." Back to bureaucratic limbo went the breastplate...
Next day, on the prospect that Denmark's exit from the world butter, bacon and fat market might bring business to U. S. packers, such stocks as Armour and Wilson came to life. Commodity prices went into a mild boom. But investment was cautious: Britain, by tightening its breakfast belt, drawing more heavily on the farmers of the Empire, may still be able to stay out of the U. S. bacon-and-egg market, save her foreign exchange for military materials. Meanwhile, Scandinavian dollar bonds hit the skids, with declines up to almost 50%. Washington issued an order, generally...
...sailed last week to supervise the field work of her American Friends of France, Inc., a revival of her American Committee for Devastated France in and after World War I. On Miss Morgan's list of officers are such social lionesses as Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, Mrs. Ogden Armour of Chicago, Mrs. George A. Crocker, the Misses Elizabeth Perkins, Maude Wetmore and Daisy Fiske Rogers. They send blankets, clothes, ambulances, entirely for civilian relief. Le Paquet au Front-clothes, toilet articles, sweets, tobacco, games for French soldiers at the front-was organized by Mrs. Seton Porter (National Distillers). More...