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...British Empire." The debts are Britain's and she cannot pay them with someone else's gold. Nor can England pay in kind-America won't let her. Your tariff walls prevent such a course. In any case, according to the American theory, every yard of cloth or ton of steel imported means a lowering of the standard of living. This refusal would also apply to services-which could presumably be rendered only in the form of manufacturing operations, transport and the like. Mr. Andrews refers to the British navy. This was built by British labour...
...will not strike anyone who handles it confidently-an explanation doubted by many snake experts. Some say that the Hopi are bitten, that a few die, but that the Indians have a potent secret antidote for snakebite. Others suggest that the snakes are goaded to strike at bits of cloth during their imprisonment in the kiva, so that their venom is all discharged by the day of the dance. Still others point out that the rattlesnake is no traveler, that the Hopi gather the same snakes year after year and these snakes are really friends of the Hopi...
...shame that 30,000,000 Indians don't wear shoes!" Thomas Bat'a had cried in Calcutta. Then & there he bought a factory site. "We will sell to the Indian at 30? a pair," he prophesied, "serviceable cloth shoes with rubber soles...
...Received favorably from committee a bill by Oklahoma's Johnson for free distribution by the Red Cross and Veterans' organizations among the needy, of surplus government stocks of cloth, clothes, shoes...
...using the stalks of sugar-cane for pulp. Its president is Bror Gustave Dahlberg. In early 1930 he sent each shareholder a personal telegram urging him not to "sacrifice" his holdings at the then current price ($50 a share). Russell Manufacturing makes automobile brake lining (Rusco), clutch disks, aero cloth, lines, rings and cords, safety belts, acid proof battery covers, surface tape. During the War it had large Government contracts for Army belts. A few months ago the company sold its business in suspenders, garters and other elastic webbings. The receivership for closely-held, 98-year-old Russell Manufacturing...