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...literally the driving force of the mechanical age and any serious international complications of the future are almost certain to arise from a struggle over its possessions. Consequently the announcement made yesterday that a method had been discovered of manufacturing economically gasoline and the heavier oils from lignite, the cheapest form of coal is of the utmost importance for the future of America during the immediately ensuing years...
...cite the case of the Aluminum Company of America. The raw product of aluminum is bauxite, deposits of which occur in the United States, in British Guiana and in many other countries of the world. The principal cost of the manufacture of aluminum is electric power and labor. The cheapest power in the world is hydroelectric; the cheapest labor is foreign. The Aluminum Company has many power prop- erties in the United States, but others in foreign countries, and the largest power of all is now being developed in Canada. From its plants in the United States the American market...
...Hans Andersen's princess he will not have Perella inconvenienced by the dried pea beneath the seventh mattress. And she adores him. May she not serve? "Socks, my dear?" he answers with puckery brow. "I've not worn darned socks for years-I buy the very cheapest and whenever I see a hole in the toe, I throw them into the wastepaper basket." "You'll never do that again as long as you live," says Perella. Whereupon, the Fiat with royal purple flying whisks them off to Paris...
...facts are generally known about Henry Ford-he makes the cheapest good cars in the world, and he said that history is bunk. Last week came an addition to his duolog. Henry Ford, who has probably had more publicity than any other man in the world's history, does not believe in advertising. "Cut it all out. ... I never did believe in it." So, at least, he is reported to have been reported in a current advertisement of the George Batten Company, Advertising Agents. Needless to say, the Batten Company made Mr. Ford's alleged statement an indictment...
...Always remember mamma telling you that the most expensive corsets are the cheapest...