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...thousand miles due south of the Yangtze lie the Dutch East Indies, whence Royal Dutch-Shell and its swart, dynamic head, Sir Henri Deterding, began their march around the world. In these oil fields Standard Oil, not of New York but of New Jersey, has a heavy stake. Standard of New York's foreign market is all the Near and Far East. Standard of New Jersey abroad concentrates on Europe and South America. Jersey sold oil to Socony for its Chinese markets, but a large part of the production was shut in. Socony meantime was buying Russian...
...earliest aerial-wedding proposal on record was made by the French Socialist Philosopher Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon. In 1802 he learned of the death of the husband of famed Essayist Mme Anne Louise Germaine de Staël. Promptly the Comte divorced his own wife, hastened to Geneva, informed Mme de Stael that he and she, ''the most extraordinary persons who exist.'' would be married in a balloon and would create a child "who will startle the world at large." Mme de Staël said...
...teammates by losing to Harry Lee of England. Ellsworth Vines twisted his ankle but proved it was nothing serious by making short work of little Ryusaka Miki of Japan. Next day Lester Stoefen of Texas and George Patrick Hughes of Ireland defeated Lee and Clifford Sutter, respectively. Little Henri Cochet. who had been riding a bicycle to harden his leg muscles, did amazingly well for an oldster of 31 but when he played Vines in the semifinal, he lost to him for the third time in a row. In the other bracket Jack Crawford of Australia beat Jiroh Satdh...
Almost without debate, the shocked Dutch industrialists voted abhorrence of Sir Henri's "inflationist proposal" but news of it leaked into the Press. Instantly world foreign exchange prices rocked. The gulden tumbled nearly two cents and the French franc took a fractional dip. Swiss francs held "stable as the Alps" as Dutchmen cursed Sir Henri for the first bad gulden break since it was stabilized...
...Paris, Psychologist Henri Pieron measured the amount of light which made him see, the amount of noise which made him hear, the amounts of energy which stirred his senses of taste, smell, touch. He examined the brains of beasts and men and concluded, he said in Chicago last week, that for every kind of outside impulse to which man is sensitive there is a particular, infinitesimal cell in his brain. We do not see ultraviolet light or feel infrared heat simply because we have no brain cells to receive those impressions. The impressions which do stimulate our brain affect...