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...will at once command unusual attention and leave him freer than ever to expatiate upon the human spectacle. In The Outline of History he had to deal dutifully with many matters of transient and undisputed consequence. Moreover, history is but the gradient leading up to Mr. Wells' deepest concern, the future of mankind after its scientific emancipation. In his pseudo-scientific novels, several of which he laid in that far future, he felt the cramp of plot and character relations. So while he calls his latest creation* a novel, it stays little closer to the usual kind of thing...
Then comes the sort of "ultimate day of reckoning" that has just led the Pennsylvania Bureau of Securities to forbid the G. L. Miller & Co. Inc. from doing further business in that state. A few days ago Ohio also revoked this concern's business license...
Gypsum-seller Shearer can tell these facts with authority having entered the industry in 1893. He shared in the origin of the U. S. Gypsum Co., perhaps the greatest concern of the industry. He was with the American Cement Plaster Co. for ten years. Then in 1923 he created the Universal Gypsum...
...cables. For him spoke his son-in-law, the Hon. Alexander Shaw, a Director of the Bank of England and of the P. & O.: "1925 was the worst year for British shipping on record." Corroborative statistics released by the Cunard Line show a profit for that proverbially well managed concern of only $1,600,000 for 1925. The truth is that the supply of freight bottoms has so disastrously exceeded the demand that freight rates are no higher than in 1913, whereas freight costs have nearly doubled. A pound of meat may be shipped 6,000 miles from Argentina...
...1825eethed, and betrayed acute concern while the Lords debated the anti-strike bill jammed through the Commons by Premier Baldwin (TIME, July 12) to lengthen coal mine working hours temporarily from seven to eight so that the owners can offer a wage high enough to tempt the miners back to work...