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...have been caused by the past sale of the Japanese lamps in this country in violation of the patent." Then it directed General Electric to apply for a blanket injunction prohibiting the defendants from ever again selling such Japanese lamps in the U. S. But only about one-fourth of the 48 million Japanese bulbs imported last year would have been affected by the court's ruling...
Highly conscious of its small beginnings, its amazing growth and its venerable traditions is Crane Co. This great plumbing house likes to recall the fact that it was established in Chicago in 1855 as a "Brass & Bell Foundry" with one employe- Richard Teller Crane. It likes to recall that in 1930 it had 20,000 employes, one-fourth of whom had been with the com-pany ten years or more. It likes to use waste space on its printed matter or in display windows for maps showing its 150 branches and factories in the U. S. and Canada...
...About one-half of all U. S. gypsum plaster is sold by U. S. Gypsum Co., a $60,000,000 corporation founded in the trust-making heyday of 1901, and always called by its management "Gyp." Gyp also sells prefabricated plaster called Sheetrock. Gyp's leading non-gypsum item is metal lathing to put under its gypsum plaster, and Gyp sells about one-fourth of all metal lathing in the U. S. Hard hit by the building depression, Gyp's profits sank as low as $1.599,000 in 1932, were $2,155,000 last year...
...University feels no obligation to supply the needs of eight hundred and twenty of its students, about one-fourth of the total enrollment, then it should see through the Admissions Office that commuting students are excluded from the College. So long as it accepts these men it must make some effort to supply them with the privileges of other students...
Erosion. Granary of the U. S. is the Mississippi Basin. Wind and water have stripped one-fourth of its tilled lands to the subsoil, hopelessly gullied much more. "The very land is dying," said the President's Committee. "Measured by man's brief generations it is losing forever its ability to produce food." In this national emergency the national Government must lead. Conservatively estimated, erosion costs the U. S. $400,000,000 per year. In a 20-year program of co-operation with States, counties and individual farmers, the Government could check erosion at a cost...