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...valedictory made provision for the future: "a new group of executives to become heavily interested financially, to take over complete management." The valedictory mentioned the need of recreation, leisure, mentioned mysteriously an engineering project at New Brunswick, N. J., a Durant-controlled rayon plant in Virginia, other "interests," in all, "35 times greater than Durant with all its plants...
...have advanced in 50 years from an insignificant sum to more than $2,000,000,000 annually at present. . . . This is a chemical age, and we live, move and have our physical being as a result of chemical processes. Whether we travel on foot in chrome-tanned shoes and rayon stockings or roll to work on rubber wheels and concrete roads, we travel in comfort by chemical grace and goodwill. If we land in the hospital, the chemist has anticipated our coming. He is there before us with antiseptics, anesthetics and remedial agents for the relief of suffering...
...switching world commerce around by his inventions of synthetics for natural products, swelled last week when he read the news bulletin just published by the National Geographic Society. That bulletin was specific. From coal tar,* air-nitrogen, cotton, corn & wood, chemists have been making things from fertilizers to rayon cloth, from paint to pearls...
Some international good comes from the wide U. S. selling of certain products. The U. S., England, France, Italy and Belgium make rayon. For a while this hurt China's and Japan's silk trade. Japan now makes some rayon herself. But rayon has taught U. S. women and men to desire more real silk. This is also true of pearls. The U. S. and France sell the artificial ones. Thus people learn the beauty of the real ones and buy-from Mexico, Ceylon, Arabia. Into this double pearl demand Japan has insinuated itself. Work people drop...
...against $6,750,384. Canada Dry ("Champagne of Ginger Ales"): $1,449,191 as against $1,273,528. Bethlehem Steel Corp. (Charles M. Schwab, Eugene G. Grace): $7,914,046 as against $10,666,718. E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co. (smokeless powder, explosives, rayon, dyestuffs, paint, varnish, alcohol, pyralin, cinema film, ammonia, nitric acid and 23% of General Motors common stock) : $30,125,125 as against $21,436,642. Telautograph Corp. (point to point handwriting device): $144,103 as against $124,302. John R. Thompson Co. (120 restaurants) : $667,656 as against $769,024. Barker Bros. Corp. (furniture...