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Several years ago Martini & Rossi, who used to have a virtual monopoly of the export trade in Italian vermouth, received violent competition from the enterprising younger firm of Cinzano. They plastered the billboards and fences of France and Italy with Cinzano posters, cut deep into Martini profits...
Last week letters were sent to Geneva charging that in reprisal for testimony given to the commission by natives their villages had been burned. Rebellion was threatened. Slavery still existed. The Commission, describing its forthcoming report as "sensational," was ready to recommend a virtual dictatorship by the U. S. and the League...
...provoke a crisis. No matter who started it, Japan struck hard and fast. Advancing under a rattling machine gun barrage, Japanese troops swarmed out of the Japanese concession in Mukden and seized the city proper. Under orders from General Jiro Tamon, troops moved up the line and took virtually every city on the South Manchuria Railway along its 693 miles. In 24 hours Japan had virtual control of all South Manchuria and warships had landed troops in China Proper, in Tsingtao on the Shantung Peninsula, the old German treaty port that was captured by Japan in 1914 and held until...
...first year's net earning of Ludington Line, plane-per-hour passenger service between New York, Philadelphia & Washington. Moreover, it was the first profit ever shown by a major air service operated without mail contract or subsidy, a profit made in the face of a virtual axiom that no line could make money in passenger business alone...
...kept repeating that France was demanding, first 11% on her money; second, the appointment of French officials as financial supervisors of Hungary; third, the leasing of the state railways; finally the resignation of Count Bethlen who has long been anti-French in policy, whose greatest coup was signing a virtual alliance with Benito Mussolini...