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Victor. During 1925, Victor Talking Machine lost $4,187,879 by scrapping its old type machines and remodeling its factories at Camden, N. J., to make Radiolas (combined talking machines and radio receiving sets) and Orthophonics (talking machines controlled by vacuum tubes). This was to offset competition of radio receiving set manufacturers (TIME, Dec. 20). The rewards of the changes came last year. Profits were $7,983,094, the largest for the company since 1916, wrote President Edward E. Shumaker to stockholders last week...
...replaced 3,000 lb. of water ice and 600 lb. of salt. For shipping frozen fish from Manhattan to Detroit, 1,200 lb. of carbon dioxide supplanted 17,000 lb. of ice and 1,700 lb. of salt. The slightly higher cost of "dry ice" was much more than offset by the gain in space available for pay freight and the cleanliness and ease of handling...
...written a play, but has he? Junkman Ernest John (corpulent Sydney Greenstreet) has informal chats with God; radiates sunshine; feels led to rob a bank to help an aged invalid lady; with approval of the author does so. Old Sal (Emma Dunn) after rampaging all she can to offset the drivel, climaxes with a nerve-wrecking unexpected shriek?as Ernest John, in a large chair, slowly dies...
After two passes that shot like lances through the gathering dusk, it was the good right foot of Wadsworth, substitute back, which offset the wonder pass from Chauncey to Saltonstall that sent Harvard momentarily into the lead and the Crimson stands into a riot of joy. Previously, it had been a mighty punt by Noble that put the Bulldog on the way to its first score, and in the closing minutes Captain Bunnell tore away the last shred of Crimson hopes with his great 40-yard field goal...
This year the Crimson harriers will have to offset the individual stars of Syracuse and Penn State in order to emerge triumphant. Captain Haggerty and J. L. Reid '29, constitute Harvard's best chance for a place in the van. When the score is tabulated, the ranging of the next five Crimson harriers should determine the victory. These men have finished in a cluster in previous races this season and their showing against the competition of 141 other runners will be followed with interest...