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...England textiles have been notoriously ailing, unable to compete with cheap labor in Southern mills. Amoskeag Manufacturing Co., largest maker of cotton cloth in the world, is the century-old giant of the industry. In 1928 it lost more than $1.500,000. In 1929 it earned well over $1,500,000. Those who know Amoskeag agree that credit goes to one man: Frederick Christopher Dumaine, who at 64 is treasurer of Amoskeag.* "Some of the owners of this property are getting alarmed and urging us to discontinue before all the money is lost. That's an easy suggestion. . . ." Thus...
...President, who had explained the papers desired and withheld were not solely U. S. property but belonged also to the other countries negotiating (TIME, June 16 et seq.). But now the whole Senate was urged to consider, to defend its constitutional power and privilege as a treaty-maker co-equal with the President...
...great maker of hearing aids is Western Electric, which commercializes the research of Bell telephone laboratories. Director of Bell laboratories' acoustical research is Dr. Harvey Fletcher, last week re-elected president of the A. F. O. H. H. At their banquet he ran telephone wires from microphones on the speakers' platform to headsets for each of the hard of hearing...
Another great maker of such devices, and a great friend of the hard of hearing, is George Barton French, railroad authority once affiliated with the Export Department of J. P. Morgan & Co. His devices are small and portable. He sells them cheaply, will sell them more cheaply when he makes them in greater quantities. With one of his devices the speaker places the transmitter against any part of his head or throat; ensuing sounds are louder than if he spoke into the transmitter. A deaf person can put the receiver to any part of his skull or spine, and hear...
National-Pacific. National Biscuit Co. (largest biscuit maker [500 kinds] in the world; also breadmaker; owns Shredded Wheat Co.; 1929 net $21,422,357) acquired Pacific Coast Biscuit Co. (biscuits, candy, sold on the Pacific Coast, in the Hawaiian Islands, the Philippines, the Orient...