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...action of the directors was due to the desire to place the First National upon a pre-War basis. The stock had recently reached the huge price of $1,425 a share, and even during the post-War depression had not declined below $850. Before the War the stock had paid 10% quarterly and 20% extra, or 60% per annum; since 1916 the extra dividend has been 10%, making 50% altogether...
During 1922-23 the fishing industry has recovered to prosperity from a dangerous situation reached during the post-War slump. New England vessel fisheries report a 6% increase in the catch over that of the preceding year, 45% more salmon was packed on the Pacific coast, and substantial advances were registered in the packing of Maine and California sardines and tuna, as well as in the production of fish oil and byproducts...
...been rocking more and more nearly to a balance; and with every rock the Labor party has stepped in from the outside and carried away an increasing number of split vote elections. The power of Labor grew tremendously under the impetus of the war. During the long and hard post-war period, people have seen unemployment spreading, they have seen no improvement of conditions under either the Coalition or the Conservative governments. Therefore even though trade union membership may have considerably diminished, sympathy with the Labor party and hope in its promises have increased. And hence the remarkable growth...
OPEN ALL NIGHT-Paul Morand- Seltzer ($2.00). A brilliant, sardonic mind vivisects post-War Europe with the knives of irony and folly. Five adventures, five nights- Catalonian, Turkish, Roman, Parisian, Hungarian-five exotically unexpected women and their dealings with a cochon international. The distorted and rapid scene of modern life is seen as if under the concentrated and sudden light of successive explosions of flashlight-powder; incredible life-histories are compressed into a few pages. Morand is one of the most individual of modern French writers and this is the first American translation of his work-a translation, which...
...expositions are made by men schooled in that branch of journalism-editorial writers." The Detroit Free Press was drawn into a similar dispute by an assertion of The Manchester Guardian that: "For four years the American press, though supremely well posted upon such matters as the oats of Papyrus, has told Americans extraordinarily little about the realties of post-war Europe...