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...week's flock of reports was Chrysler Corp.'s $11,254,000, comparing with a small profit in 1931. Directors promptly passed the dividend. Sears, Roebuck & Co.'s deficit of $2,544,000-first since the 1921 slump-was caused by losses in its retail stores, Encyclopaedia Britannica, and the home construction division. Last year Sears made $12,170,000. International Harvester, hard hit by dwindling farm income, reported a $7,583,000 deficit. American Water Works & Electric's profits dropped from $6,399,000 in 1931 to $3,692,000. Big General Electric...
...give a history of France over a period of eighty years, and to place incidental emphasis on Talleyrand. In attempting to straddle the two, the book falls into the vague, unsatisfactory mists between them. One has a picture of Mr. Cooper's typewriter firmly sandwiched between the Encyclopaedia Britannica on the one side, and an anecdotal card index on the other...
...known as the author of numerous books on biological subjects. Co-author with J. B. S. Haldane of "Animal Biology," used in Biology A and Zoology 1 courses at Harvard, and with H. G. Wells of "The Science of Life," he also acted as biological editor for the Encyclopaedia Britannica. He has continued his grandfather's theory of evolution in two recent works, "The Stream of Life" and "Religion Without Revelation...
Forlornly braying, the mule lives a life of toil, barren of love. For like many hybrids, the mule is sterile. So skeptical of the few reported cases of mule fertility is Encyclopaedia Britannica that it refuses to consider them authentic. But last week from Natal, South Africa, issued a report that appeared to have the stamp of authority. In a letter to Nature (British weekly), Ernest Warren of the Natal Museum reported the following "indisputable example of fertility in the mule...
...Cambridge University Candidate; at 20 he commanded a battalion. He invented the English Battle Drill System (1917); the Expanding Torrent method of attack, officially adopted since the War. Badly wounded, he stayed in the army until 1927. As military correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph, Military Editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, his theories of future warfare, army mechanization have been read, inwardly digested by Europe's leading Ministries of War. Other books: The Decisive Wars of History, The Remaking of Modern Armies, The Real War, Great Captains Unveiled...