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...likewise read the American Mercury article by Oland D. Russell, whom Carl E. Milliken, secretary of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, quotes as saying: ''Missionaries and movies are two of the most considerable American exports to Japan but . . . the Hollywood product has more to do with the decline of harakiri there . . ." (TIME, Letters...
...notable experiment in which one thousand lives, millions of dollars, racketeering, and the worst corruption of public office in the history of the United States, have all been heaped helter-skelter in the crucible of the experimenters, with a new code of lawlessness and immorality as the only product, "the time has come" for a true test of the continuance or disappearance of the eighteenth amendment. The November elections are the battleground...
...others are specific. Mr. Replogle says practically all English blast furnaces are obsolete and should be scrapped, supplanted by modern furnaces of 1,000 tons a day capacity. The present average capacity of British blast furnaces is a paltry 120 tons. The largest type of Koppers or other by-product coke ovens are a necessity. Immediate attention should be given to semi-finished products, now com posing 60% of Britain's steel imports. A main plant should be located on seaboard...
Last week the fulfillment of these changes came when General Electric advertised that it had three models ready. Many pages of advertising, vast broadcasting programs, announced the new product of, as General Electric termed itself, "The House of Magic." The advertising hinted of a policy which is known to be fundamental with the "House of Magic." It puts its name upon no magic until it is sure the magic is good magic...
...decided by the U. S. manufacturers of silks, cotton-goods, shoes, hats, pocketbooks. These gentlemen simply "get together" and agree that one season's cerise shall be supplanted by green, purple or "Mrs. Harding blue." They agree that a certain proportion, say 65%!, of each gentleman's production shall be in the agreed new color. That saves money in dye-buying. And each different product helps the rest to sell, since "ensembles" must be thoroughgoing. The U. S. gentlemen politely notify the Paris arbiters of their decision by sending over generous "samples," which the thrifty Parisians can easily sell...