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Currency. Russian currency was put on a firm gold foundation, the chervonetz (new currency) remained stable and was for the most part quoted at slightly over par on European exchanges. In the first three quarters of the year, however, 180,000,000 rubles (gold value) were issued without gold security...
...brief education and, when he was 17, became a clerk in the cashier's office of Marshall Field & Co. Within a year the discerning Marshall Field had made him his confidential clerk. At Mr. Field's death, Simpson, then 32, became Second Vice President of the firm in association with such prominent men as Potter Palmer, Harlow N. Higinbotham, John G. Shedd, Henry T. Willing, H. Gordon Self ridge. The towheaded young Scotchman, alert and hardworking, made his way among them. He is not a great talker, but generally says what he thinks. Once in his younger days he went...
...prominent U. S. investment banking firm recently published statistics on the gradual cheapening of electric power for illuminating purposes. The following table shows the candlepower purchasable at different times...
Detroit is a city of great manufacturing executives. None of them is greater than Alvan Macauley, President of the Packard Motor Car Co. A great, burly man with a firm yet benevolent face, a steady eye and a firm handshake, he combines perfect business efficiency with imagination and public spirit* At the present moment, the Packard Company may make tens of thousand of excellent automobiles per annum, but the production of a few super-motors for the Air Services pleases Mr. Macauley a great deal more...
...great, burly man with a firm yet benevolent face...