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...alterations in issue clothing for the carefully dressed soldier. Last week the Exchange Service added a new feature: officer's uniforms that a new second lieutenant can buy within the range of the $150 the Army gives him for his first outfit. Civilian outfitters can conform or be undersold...
...bales, and will be spread to cover Nicaragua's 4-5,000, Paraguay's 30-40,000. In due course it will be extended to Brazil's 2,000,000 bales, the big problem crop which, partly developed by Japanese colonists, has undersold U.S. cotton by 6? a lb., even in Canada...
...soon found her specialty to be light industries and consumer goods. One-fourth of her population last year was either growing or manufacturing silk, 25% of her factory hands worked in cotton mills-but the raw cotton was imported from the U.S., Brazil and China. Her cheap manufactures undersold the world; the American Legion bought Japanese-made American flags; Japanese beer was sold in Berlin. Japan's future lay obviously in a world of free trade. Economically she was the Britain of the East...
...source of income. By 1932 it was her No. 1 headache. Of last year's estimated 48,800,000-ton output, about 8% was cut from abandoned workings and peddled by some 10,000 bootleg miners. Otherwise unemployed, they made an average $19.50 a week, undersold legitimate producers as much as $2 a ton. On the ropes from soft coal, oil and gas competition, high freight rates and depression, producers were in no shape to fight back. State or Federal regulation threatened to stop the fight...
...diabetes and drugs. But none of the cats in the college comes from Alexander's alleys. All cats are bought from laboratory animal houses which supply with each purchase a family history and a listing of the animal's age, behavior, eating habits. Alexander, continued Dr. Slanetz, undersold his competitors, for high-class cat prices range from $1.25 to $1.50, depending on size...