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...backward crown colony is British Guiana, sprawling just east of Venezuela over an area of South American forests, rivers and seacoast almost as large as Great Britain. But in 1856 British Guiana was even more backward than it is today. Georgetown, its capital, did not then boast two 40-bed hotels. That year the colonists ran out of stamps, printed a small issue on a newspaper press to tide them over until the arrival of a shipment of regular stamps from England. Only one stamp of that issue is known to exist today. It is the most valuable stamp...
...last week's reports on the eve of a national textile strike (TIME, Sept. 3). The working population of two San Franciscos would approximate the number of persons engaged in the textile industry. But two San Franciscos would occupy only a few square miles, whereas the major textile area of the U. S. stretches from Maine to Georgia. Of cotton textile workers alone North Carolina has 92,000, Massachusetts 71,000, South Carolina 70,000, Georgia 55,000, Alabama 25,000, Rhode Island 20,000. Some 400,000 cotton textile workers in 1,200 mills plus some 100,000 woolen...
United Textile Workers' biggest hold is in the newly organized South. In the New England area where the industry has been organized for years, U. T. W. is not the only union. The American Federation of Textile Operatives (independent unions which do not like paying A. F. of L. dues) control a good part of New England's textile labor. They refused to join in the U. T. W.'s threat of a strike last June, and in parts of New England where they are dominant it is doubtful whether a strike would be effective...
...contradict him. The nation which, on a percentage basis, had most flagrantly broken its pledge happened to be the Conference's host last week, hence could not in decency be flayed. Solemnly His Majesty's Government gave its word last year "not to encourage any extension of the area sown," then went blithely ahead paying subsidies to wheat growers in Great Britain with the result that the Kingdom's acreage shot up by 6%. For this His Majesty's Government offered last week no apology or explanation...
...farmers in and out of the drought area, the reasons were as plain as a pig's snout. For corn farmers will get double last summer's prices. For livestock, poultry and dairy products, which constitute the bulk of farm income, they can expect to realize nearly $700,000,000 more than last year...