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...first statistical study of the subject published by Business Week last April at the suggestion of Vice President Fenton B. Turck of American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp. By the end of last year booming sales had necessitated enormously bigger inventories and inventory costs had jumped with the prices of raw materials. Industrial payrolls, furthermore, had swollen 30% since 1934. Needing cash to meet his current obligations and more cash to pay for repairs and expansion, the average manufacturer hated like sin to give the Government a cut of his profits. Result was that last Christmas U. S. Business showered down...
...fishing village of Lossiemouth in Scotland's Morayshire, two raw, porridge-fed youngsters worked and played side by side, developed into firm friends. The name of one was James Ramsay MacDonald, the other's Alexander Grant. MacDonald's uncle and Grant's father were both guards on the Highland Railway. All that was 60 years...
...only were Germany-Vatican relations threatened when Chicago's Cardinal Mundelein called Berlin's Adolf Hitler "an Austrian paperhanger, and a poor one at that." Touched on the raw were two Philadelphia locals of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators & Paperhangers of America. Last week they published an angry resolution: ". . . That egotistical anti-Labor dictator might have hung paper at one time, but that does not qualify him for the honorable title 'paperhanger.' . . . The only thing Hitler has hung in the past ten years is the liberty of the German people...
...this reason and for its general tutorial laxness. Others say that the varying schools of thought and branches of psychology, (such as social, experimental, psycho-physical, abnormal and dynamic), make it impossible to present a well-organized front of teaching. There seems to be plenty of raw material in the department for men who are willing...
Most important of the new developments, Professor Hopper believes, is the industrialization and modernization of Asia. "Formerly raw materials flowed to the already established centers of civilization, but now a new process is apparent: civilization flows out to the sources of raw materials, reversing the process by which Europe expanded. This means that the industrial revolution is rolling into Asia, where are great untapped sources of raw materials." It is interesting that private capital has proved incapable of opening these resources, he continued. Asiatic industrialism is developing largely as a state enterprise, with the resulting emphasis on military defense...