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...Chicago last week there was a notable directors' meeting, not for big corporations but of Rotary International, whose crest is a cogwheel and whose motto is "Service above Self-He profits most who serves best." To 1,000 lunching Rotary Clubs throughout the land and to the city where Rotary was born 29 years ago. the directors brought messages of Hope. Goodwill and a Bright Future from all over the world. Samples: "India faces the future with confidence." -Frederick Ernest James, Madras planter and Honorary General Commissioner of Rotary for Middle Asia. "Leaders of China are engaged in reconstruction...
...report. Oats, barley, rye and hay were correspondingly about 45% of normal. In spite of the week's rains, wheat was still breaking around $1 on the Chicago Board of Trade and Speculator Jesse L. Livermore was reported to be emerging from his fourth bankruptcy on the crest of the bull market...
...cooled motor in existence, fitted with split crankshafts (for greater endurance), new type cylinder heads (for greater cooling). Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic fired a nation-wide interest in aviation-and aviation stocks. The public rushed into a market already on its way up to its 1929 crest. The U. S. Government bought practically every one of the 261 Pratt & Whitney engines made in 1927, about half of the 1928 production of 953 units. The little group of organizers, all active in the company, kept their shares away from the public, voted a stock dividend of 79 shares...
Lowell House is adding to its closetful of traditions 15 Port Glasses with the House Crest. They may be used for the Harvard Beer served nightly at High Table, for though the House has seven squash courts, and some fine lockers for ageing firewood, it has as yet no wine cellar...
...floating airport to serve transoceanic planes. Invented 15 years ago, it continues to meet with practical objections. As background for a futuristic cinema it functions admirably. F. P. 1 is therefore exciting and at times interestingly realistic. Major Ellissen (Conrad Veidt) is an air hero riding the crest of his publicity. His best friend Captain Droste (Leslie Fenton) is sunk in the obscurity of an inventor's workroom. Ellissen uses his position to call attention to Droste's plan for a seadrome, persuades the Lennartz shipbuilding firm to construct it. Claire Lennartz (Jill Esmond) also falls a victim...