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...seven long years some 200 Allied officers have been living well at Germany's expense, each with his own automobile and his German chauffeur. Endlessly they have patrolled up and down Germany, inspecting this garrison, that fort, this ship, that dye factory, to see that armament was not being amassed contrary to the Treaty of Versailles. While the so potent officers have been motoring up and down the land, their headquarters, the Inter-Allied Military Control Commission at Berlin, has hummed with the click of typewriters, and reverberated to the tread of generals. All this has cost Germans a pretty...
Yale has a perfect equipment with a great theatre and a magnificently appointed stage, dressing rooms, rehearsal halls, property room, dye room, carpentry shop and all the rest; while there are classrooms and libraries and study rooms where the many courses on stagecraft and writing are conducted. The elaborate lighting switches, the large stage under the main auditorium where experimental work may be conducted on a large scale, the main stage with a loft of 75 feet and a depth of 80 feet, and the signal system for calling the actors and directing the production are among the many conveniences...
Technically known as an "incunabula", the accounting book is an excellent example of the Renaissance printer's skill. After 420 years of use and exposure to various climates, the pages are still unharmed and the ink, made of a vegetable dye preparation, is as black and fresh as when it was first produced. The paper in the book was handmade from old cloth, and the printing was accomplished with a hand press...
...achievement has been made possible by millions of dollars of German backing and two large experimental stations. Moreover an international company for the exploitation of this synthetic fuel has already been informed in which the controlling stock holders are the Royal Dutch Shell and the German Association of Dye-Manufacturers...
President Wilson nor onetime (1919-21) Alien Property Custodian Francis Patrick Garvan was actuated by any but patriotic motives in selling German dye patents to the Chemical Foundation. The patents, sold for $271,000, are alleged to have been worth millions, and Mr. Garvan is now president of the Chemical Foundation. But Alexander Mitchell Palmer, previous (1917-1919) Alien Property Custodian had been empowered during his office by the President to make the sale though the transaction was not effected until Mr. Garvan's regime. Suit to recover was brought by President Harding's administration, under agency...