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...World, containing the 13th and 14th volumes of his multiple-volumed Men Of Good Will, a vast, panoramic affair including several hundred characters, laid largely in pre-War France, and now totaling 3,756 pages. Five years ago, when Author Remains published his first volume and boldly announced the scope and complexity of his project (hinting that it might run to 25 volumes), some 11,000 U. S. readers bought copies. Thereafter sales settled so solidly to 5,000 copies for each installment that it was plain Author Romains had a group of readers determined to follow...
...familiarly insisted that the old-fashioned farm was an inefficient unit. Yet if, besides the assumed cost of production, there were taken into account the continuity of employment, the ability to use energies of adolescents and of old people, the ability to take care of sickness and give some scope for individual creation and the like, it might prove that ... the old-fashioned farm was one of the most effective units known...
...most notable editorial dis tinction embraces a wider scope. With unabashed possessiveness, P. I. has labeled the modern U. S. business world "the advertiser system." The essential of this system is a realization of the community of interest between capital and labor. In practical terms this would mean an unfailing flow of purchasing power to the consumer which would enable him to buy the goods of mass production. In its first issue, July 15, 1888, P. I. insisted on the "mutuality of dependence'' between capital and labor which "cannot be put to mutually beneficial use unless there...
...foreign buying inspired by better news from Spain. Still others credited it to the beginning of new pump-priming. A few thought shorts were spurred to hasty covering by the Stock Exchange decision to publish precise figures of short interest in each stock. Inventors of explanations had full scope for their talents. For last week something hit the Stock Exchange with an elevating power like that of a volcano erupting beneath it. In the entire previous week only 1,700,000 shares had been traded, smallest full week since 1921, and Wall Street was as gloomy as only that particularly...
This accurate historical novel of Baron Ungern-Sternberg's last days is for readers whose literary will power is as strong as their stomachs. Written in the tradition of the conventional Russian novel, with almost eye-witness vividness, it ranks in intensity if not in scope with Sholokhov's And Quiet Flows the Don, Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front...