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Could an alliance of these "pariah countries" be cemented, India would be so seriously threatened that the continuance of British dominance there would be out of the question. Obviously, the British Isles without India are a factory robbed of its best market and source of raw materials. Therefore it was at London that the doings of Ministers Tewfik and Tchitcherin were watched most anxiously last week. In England it was felt that the understandings known to have been arrived at by British agents with the Shah of Persia would prove a bulwark in that quarter...
...chief basis for the new economic imperialism. This raw material is literally the driving force of the mechanical age and any serious international complications of the future are almost certain to arise from a struggle over its possessions. Consequently the announcement made yesterday that a method had been discovered of manufacturing economically gasoline and the heavier oils from lignite, the cheapest form of coal is of the utmost importance for the future of America during the immediately ensuing years...
Marshall Field had been born on a New England farm himself-at Conway, Mass. Restless, he had gone to raw Chicago and had been hired to work for the general mercantile firm of Cooley, Farwell & Co., which was doing a big wholesale business with the towns of the prairies. This was in 1856. Marshall Field became a partner. The firm became Field, Palmer & Leiter. Potter Palmer withdrew and the name was changed to Field, Leiter & Co. Marshall Field became a rich man and became so through two business principles most unusual in the U. S. before the Civil...
...Virginia-North Carolina boundary he brought mountaineers to weave cotton and woolen fabrics in mills he built. His buyers bought at first hand in Europe, Africa, Asia, as well as in the Americas. In effect, he created a "vertical" business for his company by controlling raw material, manufacture and sale. No other retail business has done this so thoroughly and so successfully. Marshall Field & Co. (the name was adopted in 1881) now can call itself, "The most complete museum of our present day civilization...
Restrictions. Emphasis was given to Secretary Hoover's fulminations against European restrictions on the export of raw materials, last week, by an announcement from the British Colonial office that their policy will be continued for another year with respect to restrictions on the rubber exports from Malaya and Ceylon. Ergo, U. S. consumers will pay a higher price for rubber...