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...rapidly and perfectly than any previous machine. Mainly because of it is the present vastness of the world's textile industries possible. Of 160,000,000 cotton spinning spindles in the world, 100,-ooo.ooo use the Thorp ring. Very little is known about the inventor. The Ency-clopcedia Britannica mentions him only twice, misspelling his name "Thorpe" both times...
...advertisement was indeed written in TIME style. It was indeed written by TIME staff. And furthermore it did not cost R. R. Donnelley & Sons 1?. TIME, proud of its new printer, was eager to introduce its 180,000 subscribers & newsstand buyers to the potent organization that prints the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the telephone book of many a U. S. city--and TIME. Let Dissenter Malcolm reread the advertisement; he will see that it did carry "its legitimate and proper signature." The advertisement was signed, thus...
Wrote famed James Louis Garvin, editor of the Observer (and also, incidentally, of the Encyclopaedia Britannica): "Significant is the failure of the hartal...
...what made the American achievement possible." (TIME, Sept. 19). Certainly neither of these gentlemen is what Mr. Bratton calls a "Yes man," and I believe they were in a somewhat better position to know what went on behind the scenes than C. B. Bratton was. Maybe not. The Encyclopaedia Britannica changed its opinion of Mr. Baker; but, as you know, it uses logic and not spleen in arriving at conclusions. Incidentally, it is interesting to note that there was no C. B. Bratton in the Army nor Marine Corps in France, either as an officer or enlisted...
...desire for accuracy in all things, I offer a correction. Mr. Wilde was commonly called Oscar Wilde, but he was christened Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde. Obviously it was your intention to give Wilde's name in full, but you omitted the Fingal. The Encyclopaedia Britannica also omits it, but nevertheless the name is not correct as you printed...