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Josef Stalin may allow Russians to bathe stark naked on the Nevsky banks, exile stubborn Kulaks to the wastes of Siberia, or teach clumsy railroad workers an object lesson in front of a firing-squad, but his cloven hoof appears in silk stocking with distressing frequency...
...joint-stock venture called the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures.* There the Colt family fashioned their first firearms. There in later days were built some of the first U. S. locomotives. There Inventor John Holland built a submarine in 1875. There today are the biggest silk mills in the U. S. And around those mills on the unsavory banks of the Passaic have been waged some of the bitterest and bloodiest strikes in U. S. history...
Last week the "Silk City of America" made a rare move in municipal finance by publishing as paid advertising in local and Manhattan newspapers an annual report. Occasionally a reform municipal administration draws up balance sheets or income & outgo statements which most editors regard as sufficiently newsworthy to print free. But a formal advertisement was something new to Wall Street. Mayor John V. Hinchliffe touched on Paterson history, Paterson population (141,000), Paterson business advantages, forgotten Paterson products (overalls, wall paper, airplanes, jute, art glass). During 1934 the city was run on a strictly cash basis, reporting a surplus...
...from $1.18 for July delivery to $1.25 for June delivery. Gasoline sold at from 5.78? to 5.98? per gal. Trading in oil and gasoline brought the number of commodities bought & sold on U. S. Exchanges to 33. The others: wheat, corn, rye. oats, sugar, coffee, cotton, silk, rubber, hides, butter, eggs, copper, zinc, tin, lead, rice, barley, lard, ribs, provisions, potatoes, cotton seed, flour, hay, flaxseed, millseeds, cocoa, wool, tops, grain sorghums, sugar bags...
Other agencies which laid out more than $1,000,000 were Young & Rubicam (Castoria, Fels Naptha, Grape-Nuts, Packard); Benton & Bowles (Best Foods, Colgate-Palmolive-Peet); Erwin Wasey (Real Silk Hosiery, Musterole, Zemo, Bost Toothpaste); N. W. Ayer (Deerfoot Sausage, Eno's Salts, Henry Ford) ; Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn (Atwater Kent, Armstrong Cork, Gold Dust, General Electric); Ruthrauff & Ryan (Campbell Soup, Cocomalt, Gillette, Rinso); Stack-Goble (Swift, Freeman Shoes, Bromo-Quinine) ; Newell-Emmett (Sunshine Biscuits, Chesterfields) ; McCann-Erickson (BeechNut Packing, National Biscuit, Vaseline...