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...make silk, the silk worm reduces the cellulose in mulberry leaves to a protein liquid which it spins into a cocoon. Result of man's learning to imitate this technique is the 45-year-old rayon industry. A major source for the cellulose is "dissolving pulp," wood pulp processed further than for making newsprint. Last week, the largest "dissolving pulp" company in the world, Rayonier Inc., announced "the highest earnings in the history of the company and its predecessors"-$3,124,703 for the twelve months ended April 30; this was almost a million more than for the previous...
...with an angry blast at California's then new 15% income tax law and a comparison of tax collectors to gangsters & gunmen, William Randolph Hearst changed his legal residence from California to New York. Lately, Mr. Hearst has been having his prodigiously scrambled possessions audited, consolidated, made liquid by a new set of exchequer chancellors (TIME, March 14, et ante). Last week, for reasons best known to his tax experts, William Randolph Hearst wrote a letter to Assessor W. M. Hollister of San Luis Obispo County, Calif. announcing that as of January 1 he had returned his legal residence...
...every time they make a deposit, 5? every time they draw a check. CheckMaster is thus the first U. S. example of 100% money banking-a principle advocated by Yale's Professor Irving Fisher because it eliminates the dangers of bank runs since all deposits are kept liquid and because it restrains credit inflation since loans are not pyramided against depositors' cash...
Some years ago a scientist walked out into a Baltimore park to take a picture. His fertile brain and nimble hands had produced a "fisheye lens," a hollow hemisphere of glass filled with liquid, which would focus a sweep of 180° on one plate. He decided to place himself beneath a bridge, photograph the underside of the bridge's arch from horizon to horizon. By the time he had finished setting up his mysterious-looking device, he had attracted a large crowd of gawpers. He snapped his picture, looked up with an expression of horror, cried...
...They formed an auditorium with a roof far above supported by gigantic, perfectly shaped pillars, widely spaced so that one could see far back into the endless gloom. Occasionally sharply defined sunbeams would filter down to the bare forest floor, but neither they nor the few mountain birds whose liquid piping echoed round about could disturb the sepulchral peace. There was also a sepulchral chill...