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Providence is full of screw factories and steep nondescript streets. In the country there are no tawdry yellow lamps. There are a thousand trees, and each tree has a thousand thousand leaves, and each leaf falls to the ground where there are million grains of earth. In the calm of night, thought flows effortlessly like a great river, and embraces the whole world. The clamor and confusion of day are swept from the brain and a single eye comprehends the essence of all things. The imagination plays in a jewel-box ideas...
While the steel business has climbed towards sea level the motor business has made an equally steep climb from sea level up. General Motors which earned 11? a share ($6,870,000) in the first quarter, and 7? a share ($5,326,000) in the second quarter a year ago, last week reported three-month earnings of 90? a share ($41,198,169). Well might President Alfred P. Sloan rub his hands over these figures*#151;and very opportune were they, for General Motors still has $13,000,000 tied up in closed banks, much of which may prove...
Brazil. President Getulio Dornellas Vargas went for an afternoon drive along Petropolis Highway near Rio de Janeiro last week. Down a steep embankment bounded a bulky boulder, crashed a window of the car. At one stroke it broke both the President's legs, one of his wife's legs and killed his naval aide, Lieutenant Alfredo Celso Pestana. Peru. To shoot at tough little Luis M. Sanchez Cerro was an old Spanish custom, to hit him was a fairly common occurrence, but to kill him was News. Martial law was declared throughout Peru last week and the nation...
...Johns Hopkins' deep, steep Hurd Memorial amphitheatre Sir Henry talked on "Progress in Autopharmacology." Notable in the audience was aging Dr. Alfred Robert Louis Dohme, 66, pharmaceutical chemist whose mother established the fund which brought Sir Henry to Baltimore in her husband's memory...
...stock of silver, Torgsin was authorized to accept silver plate and old jewelry as valuta. Next day Torgsin stores were jammed with hungry, ill-clad natives, eager to swap silver for rough clothing and such luxuries, dear to Russians, as smoked salmon, butter, caviar, vodka. Prices were steep. It took a kilogram of silver (2 3/5 lb.), worth about $7.80 in Manhattan, to buy one pair of Torgsin shoes. Two pounds of butter cost 137 grams of silver with other prices in proportion. If silver-bearing Russians wanted rubles, Torgsin clerks gave them twelve rubles per kilogram of silver. This...