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...Professor Taussig's famous book is enlarged by the addition of nearly 100 pages, containing an account of the progress of certain industries for the period since 1910, when the first edition was published. In successive chapters there are accounts of the sugar, iron, steel, silk, cotton, and wool industries as well as the history of each industry and the influence exerted upon it of recent tariff legislation. In a chapter of special interest the rayon industry is discussed. As far as is known, this is the first non-scientific treatment of this industry, which has grown astoundingly in recent...
...China is to Japan what Canada is to the U. S., her primary market for manufactured goods. Undeveloped Manchuria is particularly valuable to overpopulated Japan for it lies next to Japanese Korea and is the obvious point for Japanese expansion. Mongolia, the country north and west of Peiping, produces wool, hides, bristles, human hair, sausage casings. For centuries these products have come down on long caravans of shaggy camels into China Proper-to Peiping and the port of Tientsin. But beyond Manchuria and Mongolia lies Russia. For several years the Soviets have been intensively penetrating China from their side. Even...
...Coolidges were our guests here July 3-6 (Fourth being Cal-birthday), before they went up to Plymouth. Mrs. Coolidge then wore the pretty crocheted white lace (note: Mrs. Stearns wasn't positive about the fabric-thought it might be silk or silk-and-wool) beret, with a small feather or some other ornamental touch. Her black-hair was tightly folded up under the cap. The resultant smooth hairline at the neck probably gave careless observers the bob idea...
...Brook) on the point of being executed for murder, confesses to a priest. His confession, which constitutes the main portion of the picture, shows that, though innocent, he is maintaining a pretense of guilt to shield his daughter (Peggy Shannon). Good shot: a kitten playing with the ball of wool under which the crook has cached a roll of stolen money...
August's advent revealed no improvement in the general level of U. S. business. Although shoe factories and wool mills were busy, basic industries remained prostrate. Earnings statements continued to make mostly poor reading...