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...Although 18 years a motor maker, Sir William has plowed all his profits back into his business. He announced last week that this year, for the first time, he will take a modest dividend of ?250,000, will plow in the remaining ?1.100,000 profit for the year...
...commercial films of any kind are shown, no drama, slush or comedy. Instead the peasant whose plow is wood gapes at steel tractors and harvesting machines, sees for the first time whirring factory wheels and great steamers breasting seas beyond his ken. Peasant women are shown "model homes," see babies washed as babies should be washed, even in one film reserved for married women, watch babies come as babies should come...
...been able to learn, was the first organization ever established in any university for the purpose of making permanent provision for economic research. Form its efforts have come, first, the Harvard Economic Society, and now the enlarged Committee on Economic Research which, having put its hand to the plow, will never turn back. Realizing that the generous grant of the Rockefeller Foundation provides only the necessary start, it believes that it has started an enterprise that will not only justify itself by results but will in ever-increasing degree command the support of friends and benefactors of Harvard University
Every year U. S. husbandmen produce 150,000,000 tons of cornstalks. A small part they chop up and put in silos for winter feed, a small part they leave standing for forage, the rest they plow under for fertilizer. Fifteen years ago Dr. Orland Russell Sweeney of Iowa State College began to look for cornstalk byproducts. Five years ago Iowa built him a $150.000 testing plant, the U. S. Bureau of Standards began to help with men and money. Dr. Sweeney produced and the state of Iowa patented a cornstalk wallboard, light, strong, cheap. Last week a million-dollar...
Last summer a Michigan commission searched for the rest of the lost bodies. With the greatest difficulty 86 were found; eleven were left in France. Russian peasants were hostile, had to be bribed to reveal each grave. One town the Soviet Government, cooperating with the U. S., threatened to plow up in toto unless its inhabitants gave up the U. S. dead. In another case a Russian woman had nursed, fallen in love with and then buried a wounded U. S. officer. First she tried to misguide the searchers from the grave. When they found it by an ikon...