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...French pacifists compulsory military service in France has been reduced within the past two years from three years to twelve months. As every sergeant knows, a year is net much time to make a soldier. Fortnight ago, just as the French Army was preparing for its annual autumn maneuvers, Minister Maginot announced elaborate and expensive plans for a completely "motorized" force. The French press which always barks obediently when politicians crack the whip took up the chorus. Loudest was the semi-official Temps...
...find out how much the decline in stocks has reduced the earnings-price ratio. Current prices of 405 industrial stocks average 11.8 times estimated 1930 earnings. Forty-three public utility issues average 17.2 times estimated 1930 earnings. Railroad stock prices, however, have not shrunk in proportion to the net. In this group, 37 stocks average 14.1 times net against 12.9 times a year ago. Notable exceptions still exist. General Electric is at 35 times estimated earnings for this year, Consolidated Gas at 26 times...
...Mile. Vital to railroaders, important to all men of business, is a figure reported last week by the Bureau of Railway Economics: Class I railroads handled freight traffic amounting to 34,419.086,000 net ton miles this June, a drop of 6,320,943,000 as against June 1929. A "net ton mile" is accomplished every time one ton of freight is carried one mile. The June drop in ton miles was 15.5% compared to 1929, while the six-month average was only 11% under...
Jeanne Lanvin-Again Greek and Egyptian evening dresses, leg o' mutton sleeves and rudimentary bustles. Whole dresses of ribbon and chenille on net. Intricate sleeves, much button trimming. Coats flared from the shoulder rather than belted...
...many an extra round on Christmas Day, because he did "not believe in Christmas relaxation, in war"; used "atrocity" propaganda and blood-and-thunder speeches ad lib to increase his troops' morale. Yet he can take stock thus of the ultimate end of discipline, of all soldierly training: "The net result of the barren, glorious bloody battle of Thiepval is that over 700 men of the West Belfast battalion of the Royal Irish Rifles prove their ability to subordinate matter to mind. Intellectual discipline had triumphed...