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...dump and sell frantically abroad, its exports are steadily dropping, have declined 60% since 1930. As a means of spreading Communist influence in Turkey, Persia, western China, Mongolia and certain other Far East areas, Moscow is now forcing Soviet industrial exports at cheap prices to these countries. Having scant industries of their own, they set up no squeals about "DUMPING!", are glad to buy cheap. Russia's present or Second Five-Year-Plan was to use the Economic Base established by the First Five-Year-Plan to make what Russians personally want and Joseph Stalin has plastered the country...
When George Horace Lorimer began to work for Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis in 1898, the Satevepost had a scant 1,800 readers. Under the Lorimer editorship, the Post's circulation was to pass 2,900,000, its revenues $52,300,000. In 1929, a 272-page Post bent the newsstands of the land. In that same year, Mr. Lorimer's salary was $133,399. Depression lowered the great advertising medium's income. Last year saw Satevepost advertising again on the upswing. The magazine took in $22,045,333.50, paid Mr. Lorimer $100,000 for editing...
...amazement of U. S. textile men, Amoskeag emerged the next year with a profit of $1,065,000. Dumaine had fired every nonessential jobholder in plant and office, cut wages, shaved overhead, started the production of rayon. It was a miracle of retrenchment but, except for a scant $31,000 in 1933, it was Amoskeag's last profitable year. Depression staggered the company in 1930 with a loss of $1,345,000 and during the next five years Amoskeag's losses piled up over $4,000,000. In two years the company paid...
...acquainted with miracles." Such affirmations as these, if made by one of Southern California's obscure wizards, might pass with scant attention. But they are the statements of Dr. Alexander. Cannon, M. D., Ph. D., M. A., K. C. A., D. P. M., Ch. B., F. R. G. S., F. R. S. M., one of the most extraordinary figures in British science. Bald, round-faced Dr. Cannon is co-author of respectable treatises on psychiatry and neurology, an active staff member of the London County Mental Hospital Service. A member in good standing of the British Medical Association...
...scant 14 years ago, the Kingdom of Italy was as confused, irresolute and radical-ridden as are France and Spain today. The years have dignified and tempered Benito Mussolini, and he has dignified and tempered the Italian people. As empires crumble other empires rise, and buoyant empire-builders invariably have clear consciences. Italians are not ashamed but proud and happy about Ethiopia. A significant sign of this is the sort of picture post cards they send each other. Today no cards in Italy are selling quite so fast as the joyous new series called "For you, Little Blackface!" These buoyant...