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...manufacturers have found that Russia is in a buying mood for mining and oil equipment, agricultural machinery, binder twine, live stock, chemicals, metals, rubber, cotton, adding machines and typewriters. The Amtorg Trading Corp.* of Manhattan let it be known that business with the Soviet Union has been booming, that shipments reached a total of $31,199,834 in 1927, as compared with $8,681,412 in 1926. The All-Russian Textile Syndicate Inc. of Manhattan reported that its exports amounted to $42,000,000 in 1927, against $33,000,000 in 1926. These two companies handle the bulk...
...causing this chain of student suicides . . . imitation of what they see in their elders". . . . Amelita Galli-Curci, operatic soprano, went to Chicago, where her press agent inspired her to shrill: "It would be better if more young people loved music. . . . There would not be so many suicides". . . . Sociologist Rudolph Binder of New York University submitted that economic pressure was to "blame," citing suicidal phenomena during hard times and times of saturation in sentimental fiction in Germany. . . Dr. Alfred Adler of Vienna, psychoanalyst, reminded people that the motive for suicide is often a neurotic desire for revenge, as in Japanese hara...
Three years ago a big, leathery-faced gentleman in white flannel trousers, white doeskin shoes, a blue serge coat and stiff straw hat, climbed carefully up to the driver's seat of a multi-horsepowered tractor reaper-binder and drove it around in a 90-acre Kansas wheat field for a few minutes, while cameras clicked furiously and other carefully garbed gentlemen stood in the stubble grinning jovially. Then President Harding, Senator Arthur Capper, Governor Davis, William Allen White and others repaired to a public green in the nearby town of Hutchinson, Kan., where the President gave a disquisition...
...Subscriber Waterman thanks and a perfect copy. To the printer and binder, a thoroughgoing reprimand...
...Miramar, Calif., a 10,000-acre ranch, the natural rugged beauty of which he had been careful to preserve much as he preserved his own natural strength and powers from the debility that riches and refinement often breed. He had started life as a poor boy, an English book-binder's 13th child. He had gone to the public schools of Rushville, Ill., worked on the family farm, then gone, at 18, to be his half-brothers' office boy on the Detroit Tribune for $3 a week...