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Eighty-five percent of the world's productive veins of quicksilver ore (cinnabar) lie in Spain and Italy. The great Spanish mine of Almaden, worked at least since Hannibal's time, was a prime pawn in the late Spanish war. A European cartel, pioneered by the Rothschilds, controls the world price. No. 1 world consumer, the U. S. uses 25,000 to 35,000 flasks * a year, normally buys half its quicksilver from the cartel, produces nearly all the rest itself...
...nervous Nellie to be panicked into witless sales is tweedy, fiftyish Scot Gifford, Edinburgh solicitor, chairman of eight British investment trusts, director of 22 British companies. Nor will he be a sucker for casual Wall Street advice. Twenty-five percent of the investment portfolios of many British investment trusts is in U. S. securities, and Scot Gifford has long known his way around the Street as well as around the City...
...regard to post-war settlements, 10 per cent of the Princeton undergraduates are internationally-included enough to favor a United States of the World, while 24 per cent would like to see the peace result in a federated Europe. A vindictive 8 percent favor an "exterminating" peace of dividing Germany in case the Allies...
...admissions to mental hospitals, he found, "have been decreasing. This is of tremendous significance." Hospital care, he suggests, is probably more successful than most people think. As for new cases, "the increase . . . over the period 1917-1933 is at the rate of less than one-quarter of one percent per year. Mental disorders are increasing but so gradually that all apprehensions as to the seriousness of the situation may be discarded...
During the past twenty years Romance Languages have dropped off from a high of 10 per cent of the upperclassmen to a low this year of only 3 percent...