The secretary of the international high commission on uniform commercial laws and practices in the western hemisphere recently made public the final program of subjects to be considered at the meeting at Buenos Aires, Argentina.
More than twenty thousand tons of woodflour, valued at $300,000, are used annually in the United States in two widely different industries,—the manufacture of dynamite and the manufacture of inlaid linoleum.
Teachers' cottages, crected by the community in or near the schoolhouse, and used not only as the teachers' residence but also as the community center, are advocated in a bulletin prepared by R.
Organization of the Great Lakes Transit Company, to control 85 per cent of the passenger, packet, freight, and grain steamships navigating the Great Lakes, is announced.
Six amendments to the Federal reserve act are recommended to Congress in the report of the Federal Reserve Board for the first full year of operation of the new banking system.
Chambers of Commerce are to be organized in Cartagena, Cali, Cucuta, and Bucamaranga, in Colombia, South America, at the request of business men in each of those cities.
The exports of oil-seeds from India in the year ended March 31, 1915, amounted to 953,900 tons, valued at £9,750,000, as against 1,582,000 tons, valued at over £17,000,000, in 1913-14.
The Ferris bill, providing for the development of water-power and the use of public lands, has been passed by the House of Representatives and is before the committee on public lands of the Senate.
Two thirds of the steam and electric power used in the United States is controlled by less than one hundred corporations, the Stone & Webster interests of Boston standing at the top of the list of interlocking companies, according to a statement in the report of the secretary of agriculture, made in response to a resolution of the Senate and laid before that body.
