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...landing industry. The shipyards are crowded, Prairie of the Jersey marshes. Now new boats slip down the ways every day, and ship builders are at such a premium that skippers and their crews have to do their own repairing. Under cover of darkness or fog, dozens of swift motorboats ply between Highlands and the Bahama rum fleet anchored off the coast...
...that he will paint another of the remarkable " series" which made him famous. But at least he has recovered, for himself, what he chiefly sought in art,- the pageant of moving light and air. Going out at dawn into a field near his Normandy home, he would paint a swift " impression" of its row of little haystacks under the light of early morning. Another day, he would paint the same stacks, through the heat-shimmer of high Normandy noon. Then he mould paint them at dusk, or half-hidden with rain, coated with snow, or red with the sunset...
...exact interpretation to be placed upon this pronounced advance in commodity prices. While Mr. Babbitt is immensely cheered at the immediate business prospect in 1923, yet the disastrous memories of 1920 and 1921 are still fresh in his mind; he is wondering whether business is entering into such another swift and unhealthy " boom" as he experienced in 1919 and 1920. For the most part, anxiety on this score seems groundless. The 1919 boom arose from the world shortage of goods after the war, and our huge consequent exports which were recklessly financed with long-term banking credits. These latter, together...
...there almost to Japan, enjoy broad daylight. This is, of course, a great advantage to the flier. But best of all, from the point of view of the promoter, there can be no competition from railroads, steamers, bicycles or automobiles. Across the oceans, flying craft must compete with the swift, sure liners. Over land, railroads continue to monopolize most of the traffic. But across the frozen areas of the polar regions, the aircraft must be unchallenged, unless, as suggested by Simon Lake, the submarine provides some grotesque rivalry...
Before the war, gold exports could be avoided by raising the rediscount rate, and the swift rise of sterling exchange has caused discussion of the possibility of gold shipments to England lower than had generally been expected. Yet American bankers would be pleased rather than otherwise to witness such an export of gold, if conducted in an orderly manner. Moreover, all things considered, it is doubtful whether England can actually draw on our gold supply in the near future...