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In Norwich, England, Harry Stanley Green, bank clerk, transferred $70,000 from the accounts of rich clients to those of poor clients, took no shilling for himself. Confident that he had helped to relieve the Depression, Altruist Green went to jail for a year.
Last week, to make his telephones really popular, he recklessly reduced telephone rates on the British mainland to all-time lows. The daytime price for a call from Penzance in Cornwall to Thurso in northeastern Scotland, a distance of nearly 1,000 miles, will be four shillings ($1). The top...
Red S. Singer Manufacturing Co. sells sewing machines in almost every part of the globe where clothes are worn. So long does it take to assemble Singer figures from the preceding year that the annual meeting can never be held until September. Last week, having accounted for the very last...
Against death while traveling by rail on Britain's famed Royal Scot, Lloyd's will insure a passenger at the rate of one shilling per ?1.000 (approximately 25? per $5.000). Against death while flying on Imperial Airways Lloyd's will insure a passenger at the same rate...
Vickers appropriated a Krupp invention, a special fuse for hand grenades. After the War Krupp sued Vickers in the English courts for violation of patent rights, asked 123,000,000 shillings (a shilling a fuse) damages. Vickers settled out of court, paid Krupp in Vickers stock. When the bewildered reader...