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...diplomatic expanding universe of larger and feebler Pollyanna conferences until in 1933 every nation was represented in London at the World Economic Conference. Among statesmen Benito Mussolini was almost alone in openly predicting Pollyanna Diplomacy's inevitable doom. Said he: "It is absurd to expect even the smallest achievement from 66 nations all talking at once...
...Smallest loan sanctioned: $500. Biggest: $175,000,000 (to First National Bank of Detroit...
Rearing a few surprising skyscrapers above the rich alluvium of the Connecticut River is Hartford, capital of the third smallest State in the Union, home of a considerable proportion of the U. S. insurance business, birthplace of J. P. Morgan the Elder. There, where Secession was debated long before the South was tempted, old Yankee families grew rich and conservative in the manufacture of textiles, tools, machines. When Thomas Alva Edison devised a lamp which never needed filling, the gadget appealed to a good Hartfordian whose fortune had come from linen. With $20,000 capital Austin C. Dunham founded Hartford...
...shows that they pay up in about eleven years, the houses costing from $3,000 to $9,000 each. For Britons too poor to buy even on these terms, Leeds and other municipalities have given the Government a lead followed in Sir E.'s bills last week. The smallest type of house is built by the municipality, rented for a sum based on the occupant's earnings. In Leeds minimum earners are now renting a new house of two bedrooms, bath, small kitchen and tiny sitting room for five shillings per week...
Boats. Unlike automobiles, motor boats ordinarily change little in appearance from year to year. Visitors to last week's show, however, noticed that streamlining had been applied to cruiser construction. Mechanical revelations were less revolutionary. Outboard motors this year will have electric starters. Smallest outboard in the show was a 24½-lb. Evinrude-Elto with 1½ h.p. ($55). Principal development in larger motors was V-drive construction, with motors mounted at the extreme stern to make more cabin or cockpit room. Interesting to many were three silent electric boats for anglers, 15-to-18 ft. long. Speed...