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Every bondsalesman knows that few investors (except professional security buyers) ever read even the few material facts in the old one-page prospectus. Today a prospectus for a big corporative issue contains 50 or 60 pages of facts. ¶ Lately the Senate asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate monopolistic...
A person taking any course in Chemistry, Zoology, or Physiology higher than the elementary stages must spend an average of ten hours per week in the laboratory to complete his work and in most cases the figure is higher. When the time spent in lectures, laboratory conferences, and preparation for...
MURDER IN THE CALAIS COACH-Agatha Christie-Dodd, Mead ($2). Basing the tale on America's great kidnapping, the author brings the archcriminal to his doom on a snowbound Jugoslavian express. Coincidentally the rotund, penetrating Poirot is abroad. Clues abound. Alibis are frequent and unassailable but nothing confounds the...
With the amazing brazenness which has made her famous, Japan, represented by M. Hirota, has demanded that the Soviet Union withdraw her troops from Southern Siberia, since their presence is taken by Tokio as an "unfriendly gesture." Nothing, of course, is further from the Kremlin's mind than to leave...
President Roosevelt's latest pronouncement to the people at large reintroduces to the national vocabulary the magic phrase "Managed Currency," which means all things to all men; the number of interpretations which have flooded the press of the world leave one with a fascinating but somewhat blurred conception of the...