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...example I might cite the case of the Aluminum Company of America. The raw product of aluminum is bauxite, deposits of which occur in the United States, in British Guiana and in many other countries of the world. The principal cost of the manufacture of aluminum is electric power and labor. The cheapest power in the world is hydroelectric; the cheapest labor is foreign. The Aluminum Company has many power prop- erties in the United States, but others in foreign countries, and the largest power of all is now being developed in Canada. From its plants in the United States...
Next day, still fogged with raw fumes, he made his way back to Buermeyer's rooms. The man lay where he had left him, inert. The sight precipitated fresh mania and Mr. Carson attacked once more, exhorting his opponent to "stand up and take it." Buermeyer was unconscious. He felt nothing during ensuing minutes when his assailant kicked, beat, bashed him with a milk bottle, shoved him around the floor with a broomstick, tried to smother him with a dressing gown. He lay so limp, with blood streaming from ear, nose, jaw, forehead and the base of his skull...
Among his rewards were shooting the rapids of Ratisbon, lunching and gunning with Admiral Horthy at Budapest, tasting the fresh-distilled slivowitz (plum brandy) of Croatian and Magyar peasants waltzing in raw Bulgaria, watching out for the merry brigands of swampy Rumania. Though his name sounds like the handwriting oh the wall, Traveler Farson is a cheery, seaworthy person and a first-rate reporter. He saw a great deal that was significent as well as colorful and tells it very well...
...Americans who do not like raw, cold fruit for breakfast. Yet, breakfast is my favorite mead. I look forward to it with more pleasure than to any other repast, and I enjoy it more. With a slight substitution (fish-ball for egg) on Sunday. I eat the same things for breakfast and at the same hour (7.13) every day in the year, and like white wings, I never grow weary...
...headed by M. Louis Bleriot, first man ever to fly over the English Channel (TIME, Aug. 30) posted advertisements beside the bus in the Paris National Automobile Exposition setting forth that it would henceforth manufacture this conveyance, the economy of which arose from its burning fuel, vaporized charcoal or raw wood. The wood is piled by the driver's seat, where he feeds it into a stove, which manufactures hydrocarbon gases which are then yalved into the motor in the ordinary way. An 80% reduction in fuel cost for light trucks was claimed. The truck could carry fagots enough...