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...business. A 36-year-old lawyer who has specialized in trade associations, he has placed the junk business on a dignified plane, has obtained the recognition of steelmen who formerly were hesitant to let a scrap dealer through the front door. The real justification of the complex system of scrap-gathering, Director Schwartz thinks, is the conservation of ore reserves. Not only is scrap steel's biggest raw material, but it takes twice as much ore as scrap to make a ton of steel. Every important country except Canada and the U. S. regard scrap as a basic resource...
...more of its multitudinous subsidiaries toppling into the hands of receivers, might pull down the parent company. A sharp accountant with a salesman's slant, Mr. Hopson proceeded to pull many a rabbit from his fecund hat. Though Wall Street has long ceased to be astonished at the complex securities he concocts, it whooped with appreciation when he offered an issue of "baby bonds" just as the U. S. was selling anti-hoarding "baby bonds" (TIME, March 7). Last week Mr. Hopson surprised skeptical statisticians by announcing that his immediate obligations had been slashed...
...great needs of the world is to set international trade flowing again. . . . Trade barriers of all kinds ought to be lowered. . . . This problem of the [War] Debts is complex. Great Britain, France and Germany have at last agreed among themselves concerning Reparations. The danger now is that they may turn a united front against us. This comes not so much from the debts they owe us as from our barriers against their trade...
...Tale of Genji, The Sacred Tree, The Wreath of Cloud, Blue Trousers), have given many an Occidental reader an appetite for the dainty psychological morsels of antique Nippon. With all its predecessors' inimitable flavor, The Lady of the Boat tells a simple story, though its characters are modernistically complex...
Such in essence is the problem, complex and stupendous, which called into being last week the Imperial Economic Conference...