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...realized that, to insure Marshall Field quality in goods, he must supervise their manufacture. So when he could not buy products that reached his standard, he made them himself. At Zion City, Ill., he got John Alexander Bowie's disciples to make lace for him. To the Virginia-North Carolina boundary he brought mountaineers to weave cotton and woolen fabrics in mills he built. His buyers bought at first hand in Europe, Africa, Asia, as well as in the Americas. In effect, he created a "vertical" business for his company by controlling raw material, manufacture and sale. No other...
...thousand German scientists tumbled into smoky Dösseldorf last week for the 89th congress of the Society of German Natural Philosophers and Physicians.* Whether they came in lace-ornamented first class coaches or in clattering fourth class vans, whether with leather portmanteaux or wicker lunch cases, whether smartly frocked or draggedly trousered-the ten thousand meant this congress to be the renaissance of a German culture, without the patina of which, in the years before the War, no student anywhere felt himself raised above shambling mediocrity...
...hundred and fifty thousand buyers and the agents of 10,000 dealers in everything from caviar to coke foregathered at Leipzig during the week for that city's 700th annual fair. From the U. S. alone came 1,500 buyers. At Leipzig they mingled with oleaginous Armenian lace vendors, stalwart Norwegian goat cheese merchants, shrewd Jugoslavian toy whittlers. When the week of chop, swop and barter closed, over 50% more business had been done than in the previous record year...
Oleaginous Armenian lace vendors...
...entitled Thumb's House. We have just been entertaining here at our home the gentleman who has put the house up for sale. Also we have just returned from the wedding of our daughter at Exeter when she wore the same wedding veil of real Brussels lace that was worn by Lavinia Warren when she married the General Tom Thumb 60 years ago. Lavinia was first cousin to the present bride's grandmother...