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While Mr. Bennett was making his "bone-shaped" dog food and W'heatsworth's whole-wheat crackers, the tung trees in Florida grew tall, bore fruit. A group of important paint & varnish makers, in whose business the oil is a main raw material and whose purchases of it from China are a large part of the $15,000,000 worth imported by the U. S., grew interested. In 1924 they formed American Tung Oil Corp. to start a 225-acre grove. Sherwin-Williams, Valspar, du Pont, Devoe & Raynolds, Pratt & Lambert and Benjamin Moore & Co. were among the experimenters...
Carnegie concluded: "With few and very recent exceptions, American secondary and college education . . . has insisted on estimating its results by measuring the immediate intake of raw material and laying but little emphasis on the evidences of assimilation as shown by permanence of acquisition. . . . Tests and examinations . . . appear to deserve the ribald comment that a medical student once made to William James to the effect that he saw in them nothing but a periodical application of the stomach pump...
...Raw Rubber Duty-free...
There was even a report that Secretary of the Interior Wilbur had radiotelephoned. In Honolulu a Navy boycott against concerns employing Kahahawai jurors was threatening serious economic damage to the business community. One juror had been threatened with "a ride." Governor Judd's nerves were raw with worry. He was friendly with the brown islanders but, after all, he was a white...
...primarily a commission house it makes rayon in Italy, and the Gerli family recently assumed control of Belding Heminway, one of the biggest U. S. silk manufacturers. Paolino Gerli is short, very dark, very suave, speaks with a slight accent. He was one of the founders of National Raw Silk Exchange in 1928, and its first president. Silk is not his only interest. He was listed in the roster of stockmarket shorts given out by the Senate fortnight...