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...Woodin, by the U. S. Navy School of Music Band. Thus observed in the nation's capital last week, the 19th Anniversary of the end of the World War was more or less similarly celebrated throughout the rest of the U. S. Meanwhile in Texas last week the largest motorized army maneuvers ever held in the Western Hemisphere were reaching their climax...
...Church of England is today the largest recipient of royalties from British coal, draws some $1,850,000 yearly, while the Duke of Hamilton gets $565,000 and the Marquess of Bute $545,000. The Church is not expected to protest as Conservative Socialism cuts its revenues, wisely figuring that, if it gets as much as Mr. Chamberlain wants to give, it should in these times thank...
With a daily average output of 123,800 bbl. this year, Mexico ranks as the world's seventh largest oil-producing nation.* Oil is Mexico's fourth-largest industry but it is almost entirely controlled by foreign firms, which currently have a $450,000,000 investment in it. This has long rankled nationalistic Mexicans, who not only covet the foreign-held oil fields but see justification in Mexico's taking them, since a Mexican legal principle from the time when the country was a Spanish colony until 1857 held that the Government owned all subsoil rights. From...
Last week's fur story involved three of the most potent fur firms in the country: Eitingon Schild Fur Corp., whose $9,789,000 sales last year entitle it to the position of world's largest fur dealer; Balkan Importing Corp., New York office of the big Rumanian firm Pellimpex; and Alexander Bernstein Co., privately owned so that its figures are kept secret, but generally believed to be among New York's ten biggest. Some months ago Eitingon and Bernstein received shipments of furs worth $800,000 from Pellimpex, were aided by Balkan in selling them. Pouncing...
...biggest publishing year since 1929. Last year produced 8,584 new titles -not as many as the biggest pre-Depression total, but an increase of 25% over the year before. October, traditionally the big month of the fall publishing season, saw 1,023 new books published. Macmillan, largest U. S. publisher, also a major producer of textbooks, brought out 562 new titles last year, will have published 650 by the end of 1937. Harper published 230 in 1936, has scheduled 265 for 1937; Farrar & Rinehart, 130 compared with 115. Even the contrary house of Simon & Schuster, which believes in publishing...