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...thus lofting its inventory more than 50%. Last spring when Reynolds Metals raised $5,000,000 through new financing (TIME, May 6), no one knew why working capital was being doubled except President Richard Samuel Reynolds who remarked laconically: "We have a number of new developments which might surpass the volume of our metallic foil business." Last week these additions to inventory and working capital were fully explained when Reynolds Metals, having launched two new companies, plunged into the building business...
Built in 1911, her 46,439-ton hull was the biggest, most sumptuous ever launched in Great Britain. Year later she had a momentary rival in her sistership, the Titanic, but not until the Queen Mary slid down the ways in 1934 did British shipbuilders actually surpass the Olympic in tonnage...
...their argument the loneliness and despair that embittered Lafcadio Hearn's American days, but it is also true that Hearn did his best creative work (Chita, Youma, Stray Leaves, Some Chinese Ghosts, etc.) before he went to Japan. In technical excellence Hearn's Japanese writings never surpass, and are often inferior to, his earlier work; while even a cursory comparison of the two groups of writings will suffice to show that the Japanese period is marked by a constant waning of inspiration and a growing fatigue that cannot be attributed solely to the passing of youth...
Peruvian textiles, justly famous since they equal or surpass in design and weave any textiles known today, will form an important part of the show. Peruvian pottery too, some of the finest pieces known from Nasca, Tiahuanaco, and Chimu, will be shown. The work of the potters of Chimu is perhaps the finest work in the New World, and runs the gamut of design from pure geometry to intensely realistic portrait pieces...
...week Reynolds Metals joined the short list of U. S. corporations which in the past five years have been not only able but willing to raise new capital for expansion. It marketed a $5,000,000 issue of preferred stock. "We have a number of new developments which might surpass the volume of our metallic foil business," President Reynolds declared. "One of three new products alone could possibly . . . require as much capital as we are now raising...