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...England has lost its monopoly of the textile industry, for factories have grown under favorable conditions in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. Then too, the Yankee is perhaps less thrifty. Some of his sons and grandsons have preferred golf sticks to spindles. Others have sold the old factory to absentee owners in Manhattan. Meanwhile, mass production was bringing in foreign populations...
...Manchu Empire in 1911, Chinese scholars had kept count of 1,828 rampages by the Famine Dragon since 108 B.C. in one province or another?an average of close to one famine per year. Amid the Chinese chaos since 1911 conditions operating to produce mass starvation have grown steadily worse. Doubtless, well fed U. S. citizens will again contribute toward filling empty Chinese stomachs; but the time draws near when they may wish to know why their largess will continue for many a long year. Last week, as purse strings loosened, alert minds sought famine facts...
...soon as the post, telephone and telegraph could carry the information of the deposits in big U. S. banks as of the end of the year, the American Banker compiled and published the figures. They revealed that the banks had grown bigger by $1,407,755,877. On Dec. 31, 1926 their deposits had been $16,794,203,008. One year later they were $18,191,958,885. Significant was the fact that San Francisco (Golden Gate City) had the fourth largest bank, the Bank of Italy. Manhattan, of course, had the leaders...
...engravings are made from sketches by Professor K. J. Conant '15 of the School of Architecture and show 12 views of the University which has grown up to replace the College of 100 years ago. The first shows, University Hall, where the original plates were used: The second shows Massachusetts and Straus Halls. The third, Harvard Hall with Holden Chapel and Lionel Hall; the fourth, Harvard Hall with University and Lionel Halls; the fifth, the Freshman dormitories; the sixth, Mower Hall and Holden Chapel; the seventh, Widener Library; the eighth, Langdell Hall; the ninth, the Medical School; the tenth...
...face, as he grew older, became more hawklike, sorrowful and astute. Not in feature but in its remote, speculative expression it resembled the face of a man who has worked in country fields, who has grown wise in bringing, to life out of darkness, many harvests of bitter, golden grain...