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...fashionables noted the 22nd day of faultless weather, noted also an unusually large number of straw hats which had hitherto been regarded as an "indication of vulgar habits of life...
...There is an identity of interest between railroad workers and railroad owners, but hitherto there has been no way of expressing that identity. When there is trouble the owners have been inaccessible ' to us. They were to be found in Wall Street, no matter where the road in question was located. So we decided to buy into 'Wall Street.' Now we can sit at the same table with these men and talk things over...
...show this tendency toward the larger unit of management is that concerned with the production of asbestos.* North America produces 85% of the world's asbestos, the remaining 15% coming from South Africa. Practically all the North American output comes from Canada, where many small companies have hitherto operated. Under the tutelage of Dillon, Read & Co., the industry is being reorganized as a single corporation, capitalized at roughly $50,000,000, and embracing eight constituent companies, chief among which are the Asbestos Corporation of Canada, the Maple Leaf Co. and the Black Lake Asbestos and Chrome...
...weekly production records for domestic crude oil were broken during the week ending May 30, when output attained the unprecedented figure of 2,347,984 barrels. Hitherto, the record production week had been that ending July 14, 1923, when output was 2,320,514 barrels...
...withdrawal of the French does not, as often reported, in any way indicate defeat. It was a purely strategic retreat, marking the beginning of a new type of warfare. Hitherto, the French have held the lines from a chain of blockhouses. Again and again, the tribes under Abd-el-Krim surrounded these small forts, with the result that the French had to undertake a series of expensive attacks in order to relieve them. As soon as the blockhouses had been provisioned and the relieving troops had withdrawn, the Riffs again surrounded them and relief fighting had to begin over again...