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...desire to "manufacture something," these two men have been "the works." Mr. Grunow is the boss, the plant man. His noisy way of getting things done personifies a factory just as Mr. Grigsby's silent financial maneuvers are typical of a bank. Perhaps Mr. Grigsby's shrewdest move has been sticking with Mr. Grunow however mad his ideas have seemed. In 1927 Grigsby-Grunow stock was $25 a share. Now, twice split four for one, the original $25 would be $363. At last year's high it swelled to a fabulous...
What Publisher Martin intends to do with the Inquirer is still a secret between him and his maker, Father-in-Law Curtis. Shrewdest journalistic surmise is that he bought it primarily to keep it out of rival hands...
Already the doubtful nature of this hoarded asset has caused a decline in the Brazilian currency-the milreis. Sooner or later the Government must unload. Recent crops have been bumper. Most observers believe that the Government cannot hold out, faces an eventual catastrophic coffee crash. Shrewdest coffeemen do not know when the crash will come, but last week's howling and hopping seemed of ominous significance...
Next to man, the shrewdest enemy of the whale is the thresher shark. Warily the thresher waits until mating time, when whales throw caution to the waves, splash and frisk on the surface, leap over and dive under each other, bumping and slapping in great loving tail-thwacks that can be heard for a mile.* At this time the shark darts tormentingly about the whale's head. When the whale opens his mouth to bite, the shark snaps at his tongue, holds him submerged until drowned. Then, to the anger of whale-lovers, the wasteful shark eats only the tongue...
Dragon Pussyfoots. Shrewdest move of the week was made by President Chiang Kai-shek of China and Foreign Minister C. T. Wang when they sought to use the general treaty for the renunciation of war (Kellogg Pact) (see p. 9) as a shield to cover up the high-handed fashion in which, last fortnight, they booted out of China the entire Russian personnel of the Chinese Eastern Railway (see map). The expulsion was clearly not "an act of war" in the technical military sense (though it was a deadly blow at the Far Eastern commerce of Russia). Consequently, argued...