WHEN IT’S REALLY SWISS CHEESE
SCANDALS in the Swiss Cheese Family, the reformers sadly admit, have made it almost as notorious as the Swiss Family Robinson. It is not merely that a ring of cheese around a hole bigger than a silver dollar, and filled in with mustard, as the New York Evening World complains, has [...]

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CHINESE AS A BUSINESS NECESSITY
THE NEED OF KNOWLEDGE of the Chinese language in order to do business in China is said to be overlooked by some American firms, and this fact is much regretted by an American weekly of Shanghai. Three or four years ago American business men in that city, we are told, showed [...]

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Why Cheap Silver Cheapens Wheat
TWO price phenomena that attract world-wide attention are the very low price of wheat and the world-wide decline in the value of silver.
This is a great deal more than a coincidence, one statistical observer is inclined to think.
The Cambridge Associates of Boston have prepared a chart, here reproduced, which shows that [...]

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WHAT THE WORLD WANTS TO BUY FROM US
ROMANCE is found by a Western editor in one of the “dollars and cents service” bulletins of the Department of Commerce noting actual inquiries received by the Department from thirty-two foreign countries regarding specific American products they desire to purchase. It seems that “what the world wants includes [...]

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