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...five-sevenths of the World's rubber, she might, by curtailing her own production, create a scarcity of rubber such that the price would rise. In the year 1925, as has been said, this assumption was temporarily justified. So high a price, however, encouraged rival Dutch producers to extend their plantations. Moreover U. S. rubber manufacturers, urged by Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, proceeded to circumvent partially the artificially high price of new rubber by turning to the use of reclaimed rubber and other substitutes. As a result the scarcity artificially created by Great Britain has progressively ceased...
...mark with and without power, did figure eights and other evolutions. Dean Percy T. Walden, in charge of freshmen at Yale, appealed to the Yale faculty last week to forbid the use of airplanes to first-year students. The Yale Aeronautical Society protested, fearful that the prohibition might extend to all students, as at Princeton. Started on a Junkers monoplane flight from Berlin westward to New York last week, Captain Hermann Koehl, Baron von Huenefeld and Mechanic Arthur Spindler reached Dublin, Ireland, whence they were to attempt a longer lurch...
...extend encouragement and a helping hand to younger Engineers and to those in need...
...time to abandon all hope in the schools and colleges. The latter in particular have made much progress of late years. Rather than try to extend the scope of education, the advocates of liberalism would find it more worth their time to encourage its growth in the existing institutions...
...huge docks and sprawling factories are ever busy. Last week 70% of the workers in Barcelona struck, in protest against the imposition of an income tax upon small pay envelopes. The tax was levied by decree of Dictator-Premier-General Primo de Rivera, paunchy, florid, strong, who proposes to extend State assistance to the impoverished and lackadaisical farmers of Southern Spain at the expense of such industrialized Northern cities as Barcelona...