Word: silks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Milo Merrick Belding, 66, one-time (1912-25) president, and son of one of the founders of Belding Bros. & Co., largest silk thread manufacturer and distributor in the U. S. before it was merged in 1925 with Heminway Silk Co.; of heart disease after an attack of bronchitis; in Manhattan...
...high silk hat, in his bankerish tailcoat, Labor Party Leader Arthur Henderson looks neither savage nor Socialist. But savage to British bankers seemed the election manifesto which mild "Uncle Arthur" was forced (by radical elements now ascendant in the Labor Party) to issue last week. Supposing that Labor wins the election, Leader Henderson, paunchy & bankerish, stands grotesquely pledged to fulfill as Prime Minister his new manifesto's savage terms. Excerpts...
...thrifty France the Speaker's bell is anchored pendulum-wise to a firm support. When its ringing proves futile, the Speaker puts on his slightly conical French silk hat, stalks from the Chamber or Senate, automatically suspends the session by this gesture...
...grindstone is still, the book is an entertaining tale of espionage and of resourcefulness in the conduct of a little advertised but important part of the war machine. MI-8, organized through Yardley's initiative, had its hands full in keeping pace with German chemists, who gave their spies silk scarves, or even silk-covered tuxedo-buttons, impregnated with secret ink chemicals which could be devolped with only one specific reagent. It was the Secret Ink Bureau which brought about the capture of Madame de Victoria, most dangerous of the German spies, who introduced high explosives in marble figures...
...Economics. This edition of Professor Taussig's famous book is enlarged by the addition of nearly 100 pages, containing an account of the progress of certain industries for the period since 1910, when the first edition was published. In successive chapters there are accounts of the sugar, iron, steel, silk, cotton, and wool industries as well as the history of each industry and the influence exerted upon it of recent tariff legislation. In a chapter of special interest the rayon industry is discussed. As far as is known, this is the first non-scientific treatment of this industry, which...