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...today as in all the rest of the world. The Empire's biggest iron and steel plant is at Jamshedpur. The British had built up in India an incorruptible judicial system, a good police force, a vast (if substandard) network of roads, and the world's fourth largest railway system...
More than 300 persons are expected to crowd into Emerson D Thursday evening at 7:30 o'clock, to hear Louis Hartz '40, assistant professor of Government, speak at what promises to be the largest all-College meeting of the term, marking the second anniversary...
...logical agency to sponsor Wallace. The largest organization in the College, it has won a reputation as a smooth-working, effective group. And as a group that is both Veteran and liberal, its sponsorship provides an ideal setting for Wallace's appearance--though he could pack the house backed only by the S.P.C.A...
Something interesting had been going on in the stock of Chicago's Butler Bros., world's largest wholesaler of general merchandise. As the market in Butler edged up last year, LaSalle Street was full of rumors about who was trying to buy Butler's stock. Last week the secret was out: the buyers were the potent Du Ponts of Delaware, and assorted relatives...
...Britain's diamond cartel, a most disturbing thing had happened in 1941. A fabulously rich diamond bed was discovered in Tanganyika, Africa. It was eight times larger than South Africa's famed Premier Mine, previously the world's largest, and thus big enough to break the cartel's tight control of the diamond market. Even more worrisome to the cartel were signs that the new bed's discoverer, a bearded, scholarly Canadian named John Thorburn Williamson, 40, did not intend to join the cartel...