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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...managed concern than a score of the so- "called "manufacturers" which, mushroom-like, fill barns and hangars in other cities, build tiny "factories" on overenthusiastic local capital. 2) That the "abandoned" Glenn L. Martin plant was at the time it was taken over one of the two or three largest and best-equipped aircraft factories in the world, and that subsequent additions and improvements made by this company at a cost of over $300,000 have considerably improved its position in this respect. 3) That the "onetime Army flier (Benjamin Frederick Castle) who went into banking was, in fact...
...years the state of Maine has had a law forbidding the export beyond the state boundaries of hydro-electric power. Moreover, Maine is the seventh largest producer of hydro-electric power in the U. S., third largest potential producer east of the Mississippi. Last week Maine voters were offered a referendum on a new law permitting the export, under supervision of the Public Utilities Commission, of power generated in excess of local consumption...
Since U. S. lignite sells at from $2 to $3 a ton, exclusive of freight, the chief value of the new beds lies in the fact that they are in the immediate vicinity of the coal burning Canadian paper mills, the largest of which, the Kapuskasing, burns 500 tons of coal daily. With coal mines within sound of their buzz saws, Abitibi pulpmakers saw a chance to make newsprint still more cheaply for U. S. newspapers. Lignite, or "wood-coal," is geologically half way between turflike peat and smudgy bituminous coal. It is hard, looks like dirty brown slate, burns...
...persons" will represent the U. S., Britain, France, Belgium, Germany, Italy and Japan. They expect to meet within a fortnight to grapple with the job of drafting a charter for Europe's new International Bank of (reparations) Settlements. Though not the largest bank in the world, the I. B. S. will have the world's broadest scope. It is the cornerstone of the Young Plan, which has now superseded the Dawes Plan. It will act as the clearing house through which Germany will pay reparations for 57 years on the instalment plan. It will progressively capitalize future payments in advance...
...Sarasota, Fla. At Sarasota he has a museum, but not in the circus sense of the word. It is filled with Gainsboroughs, Romneys, Corots, Tintorettos, and works of many another classicist, but no moderns. Last June he bought Rembrandt's Descent from the Cross, price $40,950. The museum (largest south of the Mason-Dixon line) is built of marble taken from the temples of ancient Greece...