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...Toledo, Electric Auto-Lite Co.'s Chairman Royce G. Martin, 68, is only the second biggest employer (8,000 workers in six plants).†But he is the world's biggest independent maker of auto parts. His company not only turns out 400 different items, ranging from sparkplugs to windshield wipers and tail lamps, but it is growing fast. Last week Martin broke ground for a new $2,000,000 plant, which will increase his employment by 1,000 and his sales an estimated $10 million a year...
Knox describes "the enthusiastic movement" as a "clique, an élite of Christian men and (more importantly) women, who are trying to live a less worldly life than their neighbors; to be more attentive to the guidance ... of the Holy Spirit. More and more, by a kind of fatality, you see them draw apart from their coreligionists, a hive ready to swarm. There is provocation on both sides . . . Then, while you hold your breath and turn away your eyes in fear, the break comes; condemnation or secession, what difference does it make? A fresh name has been added...
Debussy: Quartet in G Minor (Paganini String Quartet, Victor, 7 sides). The two inner movements of Debussy's only work in this form are as beautifully made as anything Debussy ever wrote. The Paganini plays it well. Recording (on Viny-lite): fair...
...once the hallmark of industry. Each week brings news of new factories that will change the economic shape of some small town. Last week, for example, Ball Brothers Co. (glass preserving jars) announced the opening of a $3,000,000 plant in El Monte, Calif., and the Electric Auto-Lite Co, (lighting, starting and ignition equipment) announced that it will soon start work on a $1,000,000-odd plant in Hazleton, Pa. Already completed in Cornelia, Ga. was the $1,000,000 plant of the Chicopee Mfg. Corp. (a textile-making subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson...
...conservative Figaro, France's former Ambassador to Berlin, André François-Poncet, also worried. He wrote: "What may be clear to an American élite may be less clear to the majority in Congress and, a fortiori, to the mass of electors. . . . There are plenty of people in America for whom Europe is a sort of lunatic asylum, a basket full of peevish crabs...