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...replied: "We cannot force an agreement by legislation." Significantly the Premier went on to load the Miners' Federation with the blame for continuing the coal strike. Thus, he repudiated by implication Mr. Churchill's stand. Statistics released last week indicated that British coal production is now at one-tenth of normal, and iron and steel production at one-fourteenth of normal...
...Oxford and Cambridge, fairly well to St. Andrews. very ill to the other versities. Even if it be argued that Oxford and Cambridge are the English University system, St. Andrews is very far from being the Scottish system. The English system is by far the smallest in numbers. (about one-tenth of the enrolment in Glasgow or Edinburgh) and, Apart from its seniority, has no special assets to offset its numerical weakness. St. Andrews, like Oxford and Cambridge, is if the system described by Principal Irvine is to be imitated here the task should be approached with knowledge...
...Lane, impressed, gave him contracts whereby on each 10,000 acre unit he was to turn over one-tenth of the crop to the Indians without cost. Manhattan bankers backed able Mr. Campbell financially, eventually turned the whole proposition over to him. Today his idea is embodied in the Campbell Farming Corporation, covering some 95,000 acres. This year he cultivated 38,000 acres of wheat, yielding some 500,000 bushels; cultivated 7,000 acres of flax...
...With their wives and families they form nearly one-tenth of the total British population. This is their fifteenth week without wages. Every kind of trade union resource is exhausted. There are whole areas where $2 a week is all a woman gets to keep her entire home going. "No relief is given to men, to boys over fourteen, or to children under twelve months. Private resources have helped, but now we are faced with a condition that makes it simply necessary to appeal abroad. We have appealed to Europe, and now we are appealing to America...
Rayon. When, some weeks ago, the price of raw artificial silk (rayon) yarn came down 35? a lb., fabricators of rayon fabrics groused at foreign yarn makers. These broke the price of U. S. yarns by shipping (in 1925) 5,441,000 lbs. of yarn (one-tenth of the total U. S. consumption) here. Fabric makers had large stocks of expensive yarn on hand, none the less had to lower cloth prices. As a result one great manufacturer, the American Rayon Products Corp., last week was forced to pass its regular 50? dividend...