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...Western Union blank since 1916-more than 5,000,000,000 times. In 1910, when the late Theodore N. Vail blazed into Western Union for a brief term as president, Mr. Willever al ready had the longest service record of any major executive. For years he had been trying io sell the Night Letter to his company. Mr. Vail let him have his way, added the Day Letter himself. The service was a great success. Since then...
...have been disastrous. The first, at 16? a Ib., made by Herbert Hoover's Federal Farm Board in the autumn of 1929, resulted in the Government's acquiring several millions of bales of cotton at a price at which cotton has never sold since.- The second, at io/ a Ib., made by the New Deal in 1933, was a success because the price climbed to 12?; and the Government could get out. The third of 12? made last year was followed by a slump of cotton prices to 117? with the result that farmers dumped their surplus...
...always sailed quickly away from what they thought to be a barren, blasted land populated by brutes. This autumn Australia has played lavish host to George V's third son, Henry, Duke of Gloucester, who sailed home last week after his most exhausting royal chore since Abyssinia (TIME, Nov. io; 1930). From one end of the Commonwealth to the other, H. R. H. has helped celebrate the 100th anniversary of the day when one Edward Henty landed a stake of cattle, poultry and ploughs in what is now Victoria. Since then Victoria has become the most thickly populated corner...
...Freddy Mosely, the Crimson's hope on open field runs. The burning question is: "Are Kuziora and Moseley going to play?" Only a few days ago TIME OUT had the temerity to take Holy Cross at its word and say that Kuziora was definitely out of the game. But Io and behold, since that time some enterprising scribe stated that the Erie, Pa. lad was ready to go. TIME OUT was taken to task for his rashness but he can only say that when a man is reported with a separated collar bone, the chances of his playing football...
...reprinting FORTUNE'S now famous article of the international munition business, "Arms and the Men." Because this pamphlet is sold at cost, it is not available at bookstores (who would have to add their markup, charge about 16(!). "Arms and the Men" can be had only by sending io(' to Garden 'City, and the only notice that it can so be had appeared in the correspondence column of TIME, yet it is selling faster than Anthony Adverse. Our first printing of 2,500 copies was gone two days after our letter appeared in TIME. We quickly printed...