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President Herbert Clark Hoover's contribution to the League of Nations' disarmament parley in Geneva was the new method which he personally devised to make possible an exact comparison between the fighting strengths of naval ships of different nations according to an algebraic formula (TIME, May 6). Last week the Preparatory Disarmament Commission adjourned without having so much as debated or considered the merits of the Hoover Formula. From the first the President's representative-Hugh Simons Gibson, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium-had been ready to divulge details of the formula in confidence to those nations...
...report of the Harvard Business School was limited to interstate transmission of electrical energy in 1926 no comparison was made with any previous period; and no indication was given that the whole trend of the electrical industry, as shown by Professor Ripley and by reports of the Federal Trade Commisson itself, is in the direction of interstate transmission...
...clock this afternoon the Harvard lacrosse team encounters the Springfield stickmen on the Business School Field. A comparison of the records of the two teams makes Harvard a decided favorite in the skirmish...
...larger than New York Life. A mutual company is owned by its policy holders, who share in its profits, whereas non-mutual companies are owned by stockholders who alone receive dividends. Sharp rivalry exists between Mr. Coolidge's company and Mr. Smith's company. A comparison: Mr. Smith's Company Assets-$2,695,475,965 1928 Income-$743,412,385 Policies in force-$42,329,281 Insurance in force-$16,371,956,002 Mr. Coolidge's Company Assets-$1,535,080,347 1928 Income-$356,405,867 Policies in force-$2,527,327 Insurance in force...
...genuine? Even expert Sir Joseph Duveen, in a similar case, had proved nothing (TIME, Feb. 18, et seq.). Row upon row of glistening Cadillacs, or Mr. Fisher's new and magnificent Fokker (see p.14), are logical, congenial objects of thought. But two paintings, placed side by side for comparison, may jeopardize the reason...