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Brother Murray Edes, who holds the record for inquiring visits to the orderly room, has a new invention to supplant his motor that revolves around the shaft--a frictionless engine that he plans to patent some day. As yet the details haven't been revealed, but the many noises emanating from A-33 give promise of something spectacular in the near future...
None of these results is conclusive evidence that radio can supplant periodical advertising, and Hollywood does not believe that it can. Nevertheless Hollywood is taking no chances. Its radio expenditures to date are only a fraction of its total advertising budget, but they are rising. Five months ago Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer bought five minutes five days a week on Blue Network-the first coast-to-coast movie commercial. All major Hollywood studios have vigorous plans for forthcoming radio advertising...
...gold. The Unitas is given a fixed and inflexible value in terms of gold. The gold value of the bancor may be varied by the Clearing Union. And while the Unitas would be redeemable in gold, the bancor would not. "The purpose of the Clearing Union is to supplant gold as a governing factor, but not to dispense with it," said Keynes, thus exactly citing the present British gold position...
...Berkman sees milkweed as a permanent, profitable crop which can supplant Java kapok now and after...
...liberals, fighting for labor, and the best of the conservatives, proponents of business. Give equal treatment to both. Italy, whatever its demerits, has solved the economic problem by its Corporations, which form a branch of the government, representing industries by both employers and employees. A modification, to supplant the Senate, would solve our problem of economic equality by putting labor and business on the same plane. It is only by a stern but broad measure, taking in the whole economy, giving all a voice in the government, that long-term peace, free from exploitation by either capital or labor...