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Dr. W. H. G. Aspland, General Secretary of the International Anti-Opium Association in Peking, says: "In two districts in South Fu-Kien the military authorities are planning to raise $15,000,000 from opium taxes alone. It is also a matter of common knowledge that the five hospitals for...
Of great significance to the common fear of coming inflation is a table of stocks of basic commodities as of January 1,1923, in the bulletin of the New York Reserve Bank. Compared with January 1, 1922, much smaller stocks were reported of anthracite and bituminous coal, cement, brick, wood...
In support of his contention that the railways can economize by efficient operation, Mr. Couzens offers statistics obtained from the Interstate Commerce Commission: The net ton miles per 1,000 pounds of tractive power in 1920 was exactly the same as in 1903. On the 10 most efficient roads freight...
Dr. August von Wassermann, distinguished German serologist, who developed the so-called"; Wassermann test "for syphilis, announced another achievement in preventive medicine- a method of determining the presence in the body of latent tuberculosis before it becomes active in the lungs. This will enable physicians to weed out the probable...
The nearest cotton futures have fluctuated around the high level of 31? recently established, with speculative dips and spurts of small scope. The Census Bureau's report of domestic consumption as 567,000 bales for February compares with 610,000 for January. When the fewer days in February are...