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Facts: The Standard Oil Co. of New York declared war on the Royal Dutch Shell Oil Interests, British controlled colossus of foreign oil production...
This year, as in 1891 and in 1922, critics dispute his talents. To be sure they do it reverently as befits a colossus who has been endowed with intellect, imagination, magnetism. Yet they chide him gently for banging at the piano, for sliding over details and being content too often with broad jagged splashes of color, for limited programs that have been given over and over again. Paderewski takes no notice. He never reads the reviews of his concerts. His life is his own. He sits up far into the night, practices, plays cribbage with Mme. Paderewski, stays...
...Steel Corp., colossus (until 1926) of U. S. business, again saw itself outrivaled in earning power. This corporation announced their net earnings for the third quarter at $41,373,831, which raises their aggregate for the nine months to $132,999,016. The figures register declines of $4,666,629 from the second quarter's return and of nearly $13,000,000 from profits for the comparable nine months...
Feverish rumors continued last week that Albania, backed by Italy, is preparing war on Jugoslavia. Famed Croatian Jugoslav leader Stefan Raditch even went so far last week as to exclaim: "We are not afraid of the Italian Colossus with feet of clay, nor of its puppet-pawn, Albania. . . . We are against war, but if the Italians want to fight we will fling them into the Adriatic...
...Latin American dissatisfaction at the United States policy in Latin-America is likely to increase as the significant southward march of the great North American colossus dawns upon the nations of Central and South America...