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...market value, the Great War demand and the elimination of costly selling-methods gave the corporation great profits. But they were only incidental to his War efforts. Incidental also was the construction of 30 miles of railroad in Wisconsin. The road cost $12,000,000 and carried the precious spruce, logged in Wisconsin, to the tracks of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, which carried them to the airplane-factories which Mr. Ryan was supervising for the Government. That the 30 miles of track completed an important railroad-connection needed by the St. Paul was also an afterthought...
...most precious treasures of the Widener Memorial Room are on exhibition this week in the form of four first folios of William Shakespeare. The volumes, despite their age and early treatment are in excellent condition...
...took unto himself a pen and signed a new trade treaty with Italy, made necessary by the recent French tariff increases (TIME, March 12). France concedes to Italy lower duties on buttons, canned tomatoes, fruits, ventilators and women's hats, etc.; while Italy grants reductions on rabbit skins, precious stones, carpets, cheese...
Church bond issues are fairly common. Wall Street knows well the 1st mortgage issue of the Holy Sisters of the Precious Blood. The New York market has recently distributed a Roman Catholic Church in Bavaria loan ($5,000,000), a Roman Catholic Welfare Institution in Germany issue ($3,000,000), and a Protestant Church in Germany Welfare Institutions issue ($2,500,000). The two last named bond issues were offered to the public within a few days of each other, both by Protestant bankers. The house selling the Catholic bonds published in its formal advertisement that 36% of the inhabitants...
...purveyor of that nostrum has something more valuable, to himself, than its ingredients. He has a precious name. He calls it the "Golden Treatment," and thereby he trades quackishly on the fame of the late Dr. Leslie E. Keeley. Keeley Cures (a few still exist) loudly but dubiously used the double chloride of gold in "curing" drunkards...