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...iron and steel business. Twenty-six companies earned $265,138,052 on capitalization of $3,954,170,893?6.7%. In 1925 the percentage of earnings to capital was 5.61. U. S. Steel's rate was 6.65%, that of Bethlehem Steel . 5.54%. Such returns on investments are far less than prevail in other industries, Writer Hill declared, pointing to General Motors whose earnings last year were 30%?$186,000,000 on $634,000,000 capital...
Since 1890 a branch station has been operated at Arequipa, Peru, but as cloudy weather handicaps the observation in that spot, it has been decided to move to the high platforms of South Africa where better conditions prevail throughout the year...
Asked if he thought the Nationalists would achieve success, Professor Horn- beck replied: "The Nationalist idea will eventually, I think, prevail all over China. Whether the present drive of the Nationalist government, merely a manifestation of the idea, will go on to Pekin or not, I am not prepared to say. With the advance on Shanghai they have gained control of about one half the country. Much severer fighting awaits them, however, if they begin to advance north of the Yangtse River into the Northern home territory. As for the present movement making China into a formidable world power...
...human eye does not function to its best advantage in the dark or in looking at a fairly well illuminated object when the eye itself is surrounded by darkness," according to Mr. Henry. "There should prevail as high a degree of general illumination as may be consistent with securing clear and easy vision of the picture...
...with 265,564 students in them? What more could he asked But it appears not only that Dr. Abraham Flexner, secretary of the General Education Board, asks a good deal more but that, in his view, Americans do not value education, and that conditions favorable to scholarship do not prevail in this country. That is to say, we have the schools, but they do not realize their potentialities. And one reason, Dr. Flexner says, is that we do not pay successful educators salaries that will enable them to live decently. In this country, a man or woman is paid what...