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French war games staged last week brought 20,000 men into action and the U. S. staged maneuvers with about an equal number. Meanwhile, Adolf Hitler ordered to the swastika colors no less than 1,000,000 men, the most up-to-date, although far from the largest, army in Europe. This was mobilization-not necessarily for war-but definitely mobilization on a scale nearly comparable to the Imperial Russian mobilization of 1914 which Kaiser Wilhelm saw as a casus belli...
...favorite more appropriately resembles a Frigidaire. But last week near Wilmington, Del., a family noted for its independence was about ready to move the remains of the late Alfred Irénée du Pont into a tomb of quite original design and princely size. One of the largest concrete and granite towers in the world, 210 feet high, with an eventual capacity of six Du Ponts, it was planned by A. I.'s architect son, Alfred Victor du Pont...
...California Pacific International Exposition in San Diego three years ago, where 2,000,000 sightseers at 25? a head peeked over a fence into a nudist corral. Bona fide nudists denounced the show, and indignant opinion throughout the country drove nudism under cover. Last fortnight the American Sunbathing Association, largest official nudist organization, held its second annual Pacific Coast convention at Estacada, Ore. Accomplishments: election of officers (who modestly withheld their names), formation of the Western Sunbathing Conference, reaffirmation of nudists' high ideals...
...company's pet. Since I. T. & T. bought United River Plate Telephone Co., Ltd. in 1928. that booming southern nation has expanded its I. T. & T. phones from 194.500 to 345,186. The present Argentine system, valued at $89,500,000, is I. T. & T.'s largest foreign investment in a single country. Last year it provided nearly...
...Scott Paper Co., founded in 1879 by two Yankee brothers named E. I. and Clarence Scott, has never felt a depression, is now the largest company of its kind in the world. To explain this record, Scott officials talk lovingly of the quality of their tissue. Last week Scott talk turned from tissue to issue as the company registered with SEC plans for a $3,000,000 flotation of stock for plant expansion. Simultaneously, genial President Thomas Bayard McCabe reported a half-year net profit of $743,627.72, best six months in Scott's history...