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Fiat,* largest automobile company in Europe and largest Italian industrial concern, has long poured over the Continent its gleaming metal spawn, big Fiats and little Fiats, trim town cars with square lights and snub noses, Baby Fiats that are playthings for South American debutantes, and cars like the huge grey road lizards in which Il Duce speeds from camp to campagna. The Fiat company's ten factories make also tractors, forgings, castings, Diesel engines, electricity; employ 32,000 men; sold 40,000 cars last year; reached gross sales of $50,000,000 and net profits of almost...
...held very jealously by officials and employes of the company-by Publisher Curtis, Son-in-law E. W. Bok, Editor George Lorimer, and a few others. They dislike making a financial statement of their affairs. But to be considered at all on the Manhattan Stock Exchange a concern must file such statements at definite intervals. With this general custom Curtis Publishing has now complied. There are 900,000 shares of no par common stock and 182,707 of 1% preferred* which officials consider the equivalent of $30,000,000 capitalization. But last year the total net income...
Meanwhile a private concern, the National Potash Co., has discovered that oil wells at Paducah in western Texas yield 22% of potash. They sank a 1,600-ft. well, hoping for a yield of clean potash, but got too little for profit. They will sink five more test wells, they said last week...
Bertrand Russell (1872-) is a courageous English mathematician who, though disillusioned about communism after visiting Russia, retains a tender mysticism even in his most tough-minded logic. His faith in mankind extends to all races. His concern lately has been with elementary pedagogy* but he may be watched for something serene in the next decade. Four U. S. philosophers remain...
...months ago Dillon's agents had integrated the units of the German combination to make them function as a single concern. The refinancing-$60,000,000-he would supply as soon as the reorganization documents were perfected. Two weeks ago these were so near ready that he loaned the Thyssen people $5,000,000 for working capital...