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...rather hard-bitten city clerk. At a second glance, he looks like a gnome. . . ." He was born in London's East End, among the docks; was a sailor, newspaper correspondent, war correspondent, literary editor of the London Nation and Athenaeum. Other books: The Sea and the Jungle, Old Junk, Under the Red Ensign, Gallions Reach...
When Tuesday came, nobody could make any sense of performances on the stock exchange, where the almost incredible number of 16,338,000 shares of U. S. Industry & Commerce were dumped as if they were so much junk. The day's transactions, including odd lots and other exchanges, undoubtedly exceeded 30,000.-ooo shares. Necessity, perhaps, but not Reason ruled...
...railway transportation for the convenience of the public and the benefit of the electrical industry. Last week the recipient was the Chicago, South Shore & South Bend Railroad. Electric railway men consider it the most important accomplishment of the decade. And only four years ago it was a "pile of junk." That was before Samuel Insull took it over...
...work a month on banana fuel, then find himself owing eleven francs because of huge taxes. Other Londres observations: 1) in French Africa a white man who strikes a black gets fined 25 francs; 2) native Africans practice true communism; 3) all Europe's old clothes and junk are sold to Africans; 4) the Negro is a football between African commerce and politics; 5) Senegalese World War veterans keep letters from French women addressed: "To my Mamadon! To my Sambo! To my dear black...
Manila, P. I., Sept. 27--Two agents of the Harvard CRIMSON, arriving here today in a junk from Shanghai, China, announced that they had with them the successor to Joe Forecast, the famous Chinese prophet, Dr. Who Slung Hooey...