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Premier Baldwin took himself solemnly to his study in No. 10 Downing St., sat down, puffed his pipe, thought over selecting a successor to the late Lord Curzon as Lord President of the Privy Council...
...stockmarket, one of the leading sensations was provided by the astonishing rise in price of U. S. Cast Iron Pipe. At the time, talk of a corner by W. C. Durant abounded. Yet the annual 1924 report of the Company now shows that other than manipulative causes were responsible for the long advance of "Pipe Common." Net profit last year amounted to $6,587,188, compared with $4,062,699 in 1923, $1,583,058 in 1922 and only $629,429 in 1921. Net for 1924 amounted, after 7% preferred dividends, to $43.17 a share on the 120,000 shares...
...sudden prosperity of Cast Iron Pipe has resulted mainly from the De Lavand process of making pipe, which has resulted in such large economies as to enable the Company to undersell LT. S. competitors with ease. But the competition of France and other European countries has held prices down, and constitutes a future problem...
Like a snarling, wounded panther, outraged Catholic France crouched ready to spring upon its enemies. Indeed, its attitude was so menacing that it was difficult to see how pipe-puffing, anticlerical Premier Herriot could survive its pounce; and if he does, it can certainly be predicted that his way will be short and beset with thorns...
Lord Crewe, the British Ambassador, half turned in his seat, propped his head on the table with one hand, tugged his moustache with the other, gazed expectantly at the Marshal. The other Ambassadors and Ministers sprawled in restful positions. Premier Herriot puffed his pipe...