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...most people know have been merged into one vast monopoly with bonds guaranteed by the State, Il Duce has dynamically simplified the steel, iron, milling, textile, silk, rayon and other trades into a constellation of unified industries whose sun is the Dictator. With the Kingdom's foreign trade shrunk by Depression to approximately half its volume of three years ago, the State is able to present current statistics showing Italy's woolen and worsted mills running at from 65% to 91% of capacity, paper mills 88%, cotton mills 70%, rayon factories 65%, boot & shoe industry 60% and chemical...
...which show, for instance, that the government receives $500 every year from the average family, and that every household is responsible for a $1000 share of the government debt. On the basis of these and similar calculations, the League "counts it a grievance that the government activities have not shrunk with the declining business index." Yet the authors of the article in question show that by calculations from the same figures as those which the League used, the average family can be proved to receive $500 a year from the government, and to possess one $1000 government bond. In addition...
...United Fruit buys bananas. He has revalued United Fruit properties at $50,000,000 less than the Bostonian reckoning, thereby enabling the company to save millions of dollars in depreciation charges and to show correspondingly higher earnings. Since tariffs have practically eliminated profits from Cuban sugar and Depression has shrunk the profits of the 98 steamships of the Great White Fleet, nearly all the company's revenue has come from bananas, more than half of which the company raises itself on its plantations in Honduras, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Jamaica, Colombia. Last year's shipments were about...
...overbuilt; generating stations with a capacity of some 300,000 k. w. lie idle. Burdened, too. with severe competition among the leading power companies and the strain of paying interest on foreign loans in depreciated yen, the industry has fallen upon evil days. Profits of 10% or 12% have shrunk to 4% or 5%, dividends have been pared or omitted entirely. Last week Baron Seinosuke Goh, head of Tokyo Electric, declared that the sole hope of Japan's power & light industry was a merger of all the leading units...
...need for some new source of financial aid available to students in meeting their college expenses. The scholarship funds are chronically insufficient, as shown by the number of applications received last year, approximately three times the available awards. At the same time the opportunities for term-time employment have shrunk rapidly until it has been necessary to create new jobs within the University. To this problem student loan funds administered by the University offer a solution which has not been adequately explored...