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...rubber industry has been marked. Wage cuts of 5% to 10% have been made by several companies. Prices of auto tires and tubes have been advanced 10% and 15%, other rubber goods as much as 20%- all to balance the books because of a larger item opposite "raw material...
...third will deal with the central problem of both Europe and the Mediterranean-which is Italy, with her growing population, the lack of raw materials and her want of colonies. The fourth will discuss the imperial problems of both France and Great Britain in the Mediterranean...
...under way, and also a cotton crop of unusual magnitude. From the standpoint of domestic conditions, corn is our most important crop. Cotton is a good export crop, and lower prices should prove of considerable international significance-particularly to England, whose cotton industry has long been depressed by high raw cotton prices. England needs, more than anything else, a revival of her export trade, in which cotton fabrics formerly composed a tremendously important item. With cheaper and more abundant U. S. raw cotton, cheaper cotton textiles are now likely, attended by increased consumption and an expanding market...
...afternoon, capped and gowned, he opened the University of Witwatersrand, the cornerstone of which was laid in 1922 by his cousin, Prince Arthur of Connaught, the then Governor General. Students yelled their lungs raw and the Vice Chancellor, Sir Robert Kotze, invested him with the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws...
...steel have reached the comparatively large total of 321,435 tons, consisting of 173,249 tons of pig iron, 205,979 tons of pig iron and alloys, 36,240 tons of scrap and 79,216 tons of finished and semi-finished steel. But these figures include imports of such raw material as ferromanganese and other steel alloys. Also they amount to only 0.65 of 1% of U. S. steel production during the first four months of 1925. The imports of finished and semi-finished steel, in fact, amount to less than a single day's output...