The country wide desire for economy, together with the present high cost of pig tin, says Commerce Reports, has led to many inquiries regarding the possibility of utilizing old tin cans.
The modern banking system of Japan dates from the promulgation in 1872 of the national banking regulations, which were modeled on the national bank act of the United States.
The United States secretary of the interior announces that during the month of June nearly 600,000 acres of lands included in withdrawals prior to that time were classified and restored to unrestricted entry.
Plans for cutting a ship canal across Scotland, connecting the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean by a voyage of a little more than sixty miles, are advocated.
Sixty per cent of Canada's land area below the sixtieth parallel of latitude is non-agricultural and for the most part available for growing trees.
The selling by manufacturers of large consignments direct to chain stores, mail order houses, and department stores at prices normally charged the wholesaler and at which the manufacturer cannot profitably sell the individual small retailer, was denounced as unfair competition, according to a committee report to the recent "Liberty Convention" of the National Wholesale Grocers' Association at Chicago.
A statement relating to the Federal Government supervision in Australia of company promotion and the increase of capital by existing companies was issued by the Prime Minister's Department on April 20.
The Government of Nicaragua has promulgated a new land law, by which native Nicaraguan heads of families may acquire free homesteads and other persons may purchase lands at very low prices.
The United States Supreme Court has ordered to be reargued the antitrust suits against the United States Steel Corporation, the International Harvester, the United Shoe Machinery Company, and the Lehigh Valley and Reading Railroads and their affiliated coal companies.
With a view to the obtaining of electrical power for the operation of the Swiss Federal railways, the authorities have already acquired a number of waterworks, and are endeavoring to obtain other concessions.
