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...took the presidency in 1922, his job was to create a peacetime business. Nickel was such a drug on the market that the mines were closed, his company had lost nearly $800,000 in one year. Smart, self-confident, aggressive and a trained metallurgist. President Stanley wove into the warp of industry a number of steel and copper alloys, notably Monel metal (named after Nickel's first president, the late Col. Ambrose Monell). He fixed the price of nickel at 35¢ per lb. in 1926, did not raise it in 1929, did not lower it during Depression. And if Nickel...
...until a man is dead and buried can he safely be called great. Death and its historical illusion then lend the word some meaning, which it lacks in an age addicted to strong language. Boundaries warp perspectives even more: one land's hero is another's hissing, and there is no universal Emily Post to tell plain men in whose presence to doff their hats. But this week, in the name of half a hemisphere, literary Manhattan was ready to do homage to a foreign writer, to acknowledge him" as safely great though still dangerously alive...
...Japanese have made themselves unpopular in Manchoukuo, and spoofs loudly at the idea that the new state was founded on the happy will of thirty million Manchurians. All this is too naive for Mr. Kawakami, who builds up a really coherent and credible defense for his countrymen on the warp of a new political thesis. This thesis holds that the white man, since Metternich developed the principle of wholesale intervention, has held that principle his exclusive preserve, and is inclined to view with anger any Japanese poaching. Thus the League Council continued, despite the Lytton report, to speak...
Extension screens . . . 2 for 94?. . . . The frames are of wood and will warp in time. But the joints are dovetailed so they'll stand a lot of slamming windows...
...Please - it's Barber-Colman [TIME, Sept. 21, p. 55] and it's a spooler and a warper - two different machines. . . . Also this system is acknowledged to be one of the foremost developments of past decade in textile manufacturing, greatly speeding up & simplifying the preparation of the warp threads for the loom and the weaving process. Preparation of the cotton fibre for weaving is a complicated process with too many operations involved. Present mills are seeing and will see a good many simplifications and combinations of these spinning operations (occurring prior to the spooling & warping mentioned above...