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Italy has about 250,000 factories, of which less than 10% employ 10 or more persons each. Few good highways, little mineral resources and especially a paucity of coal mines hamper the factories. They must import almost all their raw materials. Expensive materials and frail employes explain why textiles constitute the chief manufactured products of Italy, why food products come next, why steel and engineering industries have progressed slowly. If Italy had at least cheap motive power for her factories, they could become larger, more numerous and more productive of diversified goods. And Italy has in her mountains great stores...
SPLENDOR-Ben Ames Williams- Button ($2.50). Quietly and carefully Author Williams tells the story of Henry Beeker, faithful newspaperman. Son of a blacksmith father, Henry enters the employ of a Boston newspaper as an office-boy-just for a summer vacation period. He does his work well and is encouraged to give up school, to remain with the paper. Filled with splendid visions, he agrees. Follow years of small successes, small sorrows, marriage, babies, undimmed visions. Life's autumn finds Henry definitely shelved -almost pensioned-in the profession he has studied so long but never conquered. He still gazes...
Anti-Salooners. "The strategy we should employ today is to arouse our people and get them into the fight. Get the church people at the bat. Let them have their innings. . . . The Anti-Saloon League and the W. C. T. U. have never been and never will be supergovernment.* But we have said to the people that the time has come to take our government out of the hands of the bootleggers and put it back where it belongs." So said Superintendent Francis Scott McBride of the Anti-Saloon League last month. Last week there were rumblings among Anti-Salooners...
...National Industrial Conference wanted to know the relation of small to big businesses in the U. S. Its investigators found, they reported last week, that concerns engaged in manufacturing, mining and commerce employ on the average ten persons each; manufacturing plants average 44.7 each, wholesale houses 14 to 15, retail establishments five to six. Mail order houses, chain stores and department stores handle only 30% of the national business. However, in 1925, one-third of the manufacturing plants produced nine-tenths of the country's manufactured products and employed nearly nine-tenths of the wage-earners in industry. Significance...
...constitutes in Chemistry, more than in other sciences, the active work of the students engaged upon its study, will continue throughout the Reading Period, according to G. P. Baxter '96, Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry and chairman of the department. Four courses, all of an advanced nature, will employ it at mid-years. They are Chemistry 11, Industrial Chemistry, the single course of the four which is not primarily for graduates alone: Chemistry 6. Physical Chemistry: Chemistry 10, Gas Analysis: and Chemistry 16. Advanced Inorganic Chemistry...