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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-23

lished In 1915, and contained repeaters
at Pittsburgh, Omaha and Salt Lake
City. Since that time the use of re-
peaters has increased rapidly, until at
present they are to be found in every
land long distance telephone unit.
But the energy handled in tele-
nhone line or a radio receiving set is
only fraction of horsepower, hence
the repeating or simplifying tubes are
usually rather small. In transatlantic
radio telephony, however, 200 horse
power is applied TO the voice energy
and the vacuum tubes employed are
nearly ? feet long.
They are of a special design, which
it took three years to perfect. Cur
rents so strong pass through them
that a water-cooling system like that
of an automobile engine is necessary
to keep them from burning out.
Twenty-three of these tubes are re-
quired to give sufficient power to the
human voice to make IL carry across
the Atlantic's waves. The energy set
up in the wire by the speakers voice,
with 200.horsepower push" behind
1t, enters first one of these tubes,
where 1t Is magnified 20,00o.00
times, Is sent to two more, and finally
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-23

handles the transaction from begin
ming to end. and the call is completed
while the telephone user holds the
line. just as in a local message.
1t is at the switchboard that the
largest personal factor now enters
into the working of long distance,
Even there. every effort has been
made to obtain machine-like precision
through maintaining the highest pos
sible standard of personal efficiency.
To this end. a definite routine has
been established. which is of interest
as an example of what health experts
would call perfect day Each Op-
orators eight hours of work are pune
tuated by two 1S-minute rest periods
and stretch session similar to
base balls traditional ''Seventh-inuing
stretch" when all the operators get
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-23

skiff to several small islets which
were literally brown with sealions.
Stepping ashore, | walked among
them, slapped the adults and played
with the puppies, meeting with no OPP
position except an occasional grunt-
ing bark from one of the bulls.
y y
TT was off one of the Channel
Islands, on the coast of Southern
California. that l had an experience
with sharks that made me begin to
doubt the protective capacity of my
little steel box. was working in
some 20 fathoms of water U26 feeu
when. something struck the corner of
the diving bell and then glanced off.
The force of the blow was enough to
rock me on my stool and upset my
tubes Of paint, and il brought me sud
denly to my feet. whereupon bumped
my head on the low roof. which in the
excitement of the moment l had for
gotten. My first thought was of a
submarine earthquake; my second
that a bowlder had fallen from one of
the high. overhanging cliffs. My third
guess hit the real target. for just then
the largest man-eating shark l have
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-23

out of their chairs and carry on
their work for few minutes from
a standing position. At such times
the air in the long-distance exchange
rooms is changed by opening the win
dows or turning on the electric fans.
That this sort of attention to de-
tail Is quickly recognized as an I'M
portant factor In the success OF long
distance Is indicated in a newspapers
editorial comment on the latest
achievement of the radio telephone,
which noted that connections were
made with a celebrity and smoothness
that spoke eloquently for those re-
sponsible for drilling and directing
the personnel"
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as any on land. love to paint these
views as a change from the landscape
work of the rest Of the year.
On one of my first trips down
in the submarine studio" as ]
named my diving bell workshop. | had
an amusing experience with three
seals To appreciate this story, one
should remember that the seal, with
the occasional exception of short
tempered old bull. is a great big, good
natured mammal. whose life is made
up of playing, eating, playing, sleep
ing, and more playing. Seals can and
will fight in defense of their young.
but otherwise they are among the
most harmless and friendly of all wild
animals I had gone down in the
diving bell off the coast of Lower Cali
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Experience With Marine Giant Is Productive of Til

box down into their underwater world.
Presently the bull sealion backed
and slowly swan forward again until
the point of his nose was pressing
hard against the glass. He must have
weighed in the neighborhood of seven
or eight hundred pounds, possibly
more, and as my diving bell weighed
only 800 pounds, had some misgiv-
ings as to his intentions. However,
he merely turned aside and lay along
side the window, where he could
watch me again. The two other sea
lions remained practically stationary
at their respective windows, until at
length the old bull tired of his vigil
and led his family away, probably on
a fishing trip
The following day l rowed out in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-23
Plane Wins Race.

THREE carrier pigeons were defeat
ed by an airplane in a strange
race recently between Hammondsport
and Auburn, n. Y, an airline dis
lance of so miles. The plane beat
the first pigeon to arrive by three
minutes.
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painted for a while and then
I slipped out of my clothes
and, going to the edge of
cliff, / dived in. Dropping straight
down to a considera BILE depth. | found
that the base of the cliff was cut into
a series of beautiful grottoeS and cav
erns. in and out of which swan pro
cessions of rainbow colored fish.
l was just preparing to swim to the
surface again when out OF the corner
my eye saw gray mass approach
ing rapidly. Shark" 1 said to my
self
Before L could leap off the bottom
of the sea and start upward however,
the great gray shape turned sharply
out into deeper water. Right behind
II, hitherto hidden by its body, I saw
the sharp nose and gaping jaws of a
man-eater, heading straight toward
me,
I have heard it said that men CON
fronted with sudden death review all
the acts of their lives in a second, but
I can assure you that Just then I was
extremely busy thinking, not of what
1 had done. but of what l was going
to dc 20 save my skin.
l knew that if I leaped upward, the
shark would get me before I was 20
IeeC OH the DOClCIn. L Hdu dISduN
been down about a minute. and the
supply of air in my lungs was none
too good, but I waited until the shark.
moving with considerable speed, was
within yard or less of me. Then
suddenly dived underneath the oncom-
ing terror. My body almost scraped
the bed of the ocean, but the impetus
of the sharks movement carried him
some 90 feet beyond me. and during
the time which it took him TO cover
this distance, turn round and start to-
ward me again, was half way to the
surface.
Once more the sea tiger came at me
with rush, and again l dived under
him, gaining only about Is feet, but
giving myself time to reach the sur
face, where I swan as l never swan
before to a low shelf on the cliff.
drew myself up on to this ledge just
as the naneater made a rush which
nearly carried him out of the water.
For the moment / was safe.
The ledge was about feet wide, but
knew ii would be covered with some
or feet of water at high tide,
and the tide was already on the turn
and beginning to come back. Once the
sea covered this ledge, there would be
water enough for the shark TO swim
In and grab me-and there was no
way by which could climb up to the
top Of the cliff. rising sheer some 20
feet above me.
y
HOPING that my man might hear
me and come to the rescue, I
began to shout my loudest, while the
shark cruised backward and forward
below me- his drab sides almost SCRAP
ing the base Of the cliff, his body so
turned that one huge wall-eye always
kept me in view.
Fortunately for me, the air was
very still and my voice carried well.
I had been yelling at intervals for
about an hour when my fried Antonio
Torres, owner of the hacienda on
which was camped, sent his inozo to
call me in for the usual afternoon
bottle of wine. The servant found my
painting outfit and my clothes and
heard me shouting. and went back TO
tell his master that I was in trouble
on the rocks.
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The experiences narrated In the follow.
ing article fell to an artist who is one
of the few members of his profession
actually to paint under water.
Mr.. Dakin. . well known landscape
artist of San Francisco. became inter
ested in painting marine life. His hrst
pictures of that kind were obtained by
diving and painting afterward from
memory.
TO design his underwater studio on the
DIVING. bell plan. He has since done bis
portraits of the creatures of the depths
from a stout steel compartment equipped
with inch-thick plate glass windows.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-23
BY TILDEN DAKIN.

~ NE sunny afternoon off the
Pacific coast of Mexico, l
painted for a while and then
~ I slipped out of my clothes
and, going to the edge of
Evening star., 1927-10-18
Heads Olympic Committee.

Maj. Gen. Arthur Macarthur. cor,
manding the Third Corps Area. al;
Baltimore, has been appointed chair
man of the United States Olympic
committee arranging for the next In
ternational athletic matches. He has
been interested in amateur athletics
for years and while a cadet at the
Military Academy was designated a
three a" man for his skill in foo.
hall. base baIl and tennis.
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Bay, and for the purpose has In.
serted an item Of about $1,0O0.00O in
next years budget.
The field would be so arranged
that both landplanes and seaplanes
could land and take off from it. The
authorities believe that the next few
years may bring many aerial visitors
to Japan and 1t Is hoped that ac-
commodations for their comfort and
convenience can be provided. The
site OF the proposed airdrome fs So
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salvaged from the first bank in Colo
rado-the Bank Of Blackhawk. That
village now is small place down the
gulch from Central City, but at the
time the scales were put into operation
Blackhawk was one of the largest and
most prosperous cities of the State
Henry NJ. Stanley, the famous ex'
plorer, was one of its residents.
The bank was started by an East
erner, but his ownership of both bank
and scales was short lived, for few
Evening star., 1927-10-18

which has years OF hard usage, the
scales now are among the fixtures of
the Central City Bank. on~ of the few
still buying gold directly from the men
who garner it from the earth. Be.
cause the scales were the only visible
assets of the bank when 1t started
business during the Civil War. the
present owners are reluctant to shelve
them.
The scales, according to old-timers
of tie region, once the greatest gold
producing section of the state, were
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AIRDROME FOR VISITORS.
Japan Plans Field for Aerial
Guests Of Nation.

Correspondents of the Associated Press.
TOKIO.-The communications de.
partment Of the Japanese govern.
ment Is planning the construction
OF an international airdrome" near
Susaki. on the Chiba side Of Toxic
Evening star., 1927-10-18

months later he disappeared with the
entire resources of the institution.
In an attempt to salvage a part OF
the 'wreckage" the sc les were sold
at auction and were purchased by the
Central City Bank, the present owners.
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FAMOUS GOLD SCALES
ARE STILL BEING USED

Correspondence of the Associated Press.
DENVER, Colo.-The oldest gold
scales in Colorado, in use since before
the Civil War, still are weighing and
Judging gold nuggets brought in from
the hills surrounding Central City.
OF delicate but true mechanism
Evening star., 1927-10-18

When the new administration Of the
state of Rio Grande de Norte, Brazil.
takes Office next January, 1t will build
new roads, drill wells and establish
an agricultural credits bank.
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located that foreign aviators viii not
have to fly over Japanese fortiflca'
tions when visiting the empire.
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Gen. Drum to Command Division,

Brig. Gen. Hugh A. Drum. COM
manding the 1st Brigade at Fort
Wadsworth. N. Y. has been trans
ferred to Fort Hamilton. ". Y. to
command the 1st Division.
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Plaid Blankets

Usual $1.25 and $l.50
single cut, Cotton Plaid
Blankets; also wool with
cotton blankets, in tan
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Window
Shades, 2 for

Seconds of 81 Oil
Opaque Shades, with per-
feet, easy working rollers.
ecru and white.
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$1.75 Electric
TOaStef.
Bill Folds

Usual $1.25 and $3.50 j
grades. Three-fold, with
one or two identification -
windows. Genuine pin seal and
morocco leather in black.
Street Floor
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Washable Cuff
Gloves, 2prs. for :

Fancy cuff styles Of
chamoisuede, with en-
broidered backs to match cuffs.
Also 2-button lined, chamoisuede
gloves. All perfect. New shades
and all sizes.
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79c Oil Mops
2 for

Large size, ready Oiled
Mop; packed in a metal
container.
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Soc Felt.base
Coverings
3 so. yds. for

Perfect quality, cut from the
roll. A variety of attractive pat
terms.
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S1.40 Velour
Cushions

Samples and one-of-a- -
kind patterns, in lovely
Sofa Cushions. Just 100 in the
group. Various desirable colors,
and combinations of tapestry and
velour.
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Heavy Laces
20 ydS. for

Cluny, torchon and
flet mesh patterns. Mer-
cerized and linen finishes. Cream,
ecru and white.
Street Floor.
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Boys Wool
Sweaters

Slip-o1 and 1umberjack
styles, regularly selling
for s.. Fancy patterns, in sizes %
to 36.
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S1.50 Hat Boxes

Large, black-enameled q
Hat Boxes. Substantially
constructed, with sewn
handles.
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Boys Indian Chief .
Suits, firm khaki cloth.
Includes a flowing head
piece with feathers. Sizes 4
years.
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Boys Wool
CAPS, 2 for

Button-on and MILDLY
styles, of chambray and
Peggy cloth. Neatly trimmed with
contrasting color fabrics. Long
sleeves. Sizes 2 to 8.
Evening star., 1927-10-18
81 Silk Scarfs

Georgette and silk y
crepe in plain colors or
artistic printed patterns.
1H and 11A yards long with
fringed or hemmed ends.
Evening star., 1927-04-18
PANESE BONDS
ARE SOLD HEAVILY.
Trading Quieter and Price
Are Irregular in Most of
the Foreign Issues.
BY CHARLES #. sPEARE.

Special Dispatch to The star.
NEW YORK, April ia sore sIl
in the bond market was uncoverl
today in the list of Japanese govern
ment, municipal and public utility 3
sues. Some of these sold at the lowel
of the year, the decline ranging fret
Il to 2 points.
Liquidation in them was quit
heavy. 1t produced loss of a poir
in the government 6i2s. which wei
offered freely under par. City
Toxic 5Rs, brought out some week
ago at S912. were about poirh
under the original price. The Yokoh;
ma 6s were at one time Az point
below the high of this year. The larI
est shrinkage was in the Oriental ID,
velopment 6s. guaranteed by the JaI
anese government, which declined
points.
This situation may have had a sligt
sentimental effect on the remainder
the foreign department, for trading
it was quieter and prices irregula!
The Italian public utility rs, after lai
weeks sensational movement, Wet
off 112 points and other Italian issues
heavy. French bonds were quiet an
steady. Bank of Chile GAS improve
fractionally.
There will be several small me-
issues of foreign bonds this week.
The feature of the speculative raj
road list was the Denver & Rio Grand
IS. at one time at '85, the highest b
record. Inasmuch as it will be som
months before the directors met
again to consider the question of Ii
itiating interest payments on thea
bonds, the present movement in thei
appears somewhat premature. Err
DDS" were off a. point. Seaboard Al
Line issues showed a slight recover
Evening star., 1927-04-18
WHEAT PRICES CLIMB
ON WEATHER OUTLOOK
Bullish Views Expressed by Recent
Bear Trader Also Have Effect
on Grain Today.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April 1S.-Wheat dis
PLAYED an early upward trend today
owing largely to further general rains
and to a forecast of widespread addi-
tional moisture. Bullish views express
ed by a trade leader, who has hereto
fore been bearish since January 10,
were also given much attention. Open
ing at II to 12c advance. wheat soon
went higher Corn, oats and provis-
ions were also firmer, corn starting
unchanged to Ac up and later scoring
gains all around.
IJnfayorable weather conditions
over the entire wheat territory in the
Southwest, West and Northwest gave
special point today to comment that
all the uncertainties of the crop-grow-
ing season are ahead and that Spring
seeding is delayed. Marked falling
off in the volume Of world exports
last week are likewise a subject of
notice, but was offset by the fact that
8, 00O, 900 bushels of Canadian wheat
is now af1oat on Lake Superior, an
amount said to be the greatest ever
known.
Crop conditions in western Nebras-
ka and western Kansas also came in
for particular attention today. Ac-
cording to one authority here, wheat
in the western third of the two States
named is poor to worthless and it
will require perfect weather until
harvest time for Kansas and Nebras-
ka to raise more than fair crop.
Evening star., 1927-04-18

CHICAGO. April Is (P.-Butter
lower: receipts, 16,111 tubs: creamery
extras, 5012; standards, 491a; extra
firsts, 491aa50; firsts, 4712a4812; Sec
onds, 43l5a45b.
Eggs lever; receipts, 55,432 cases;
firsts, 23a231s;. ordinary firsts, 221a;
storage packed extras, 26a26A; stor-
age packed .f1rsts, .25A. .,........-..-....4.
Evening star., 1927-04-18
Fishers Price Index

The following table shows the av-
erage movement from week to week
% of the wholesale prices of 200 rep
resentative commodities from Dun's
Review and (2) of the purchasing pow
er of the dollar:
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WHITE EAGLE OIL.

NEW YORK, April Is (P).-First
quarter profit of White Eagle Oil de-
clined to S3SS.006 after expenses, but
before depreciation, depletion and
taxes, from $416,915 In the first quar-.
ter last year. 4
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ON NEW YORK BONDS STOCK EXCHANGE


60 This table carries quotations
received up to 3:15 pm. A COM
plete table will be published in
the $50 Edition.
Evening star., 1927-04-18
POULTRY MARKET FIRM.

CHICAGO, April IS UP).-Poultry-
Alive, firm receipts. l car; fowls.
25a29; broilers, 35a45: turkeys 30;
soosters, l6; ducks, 20a32; geese. k5a1s.
Evening star., 1927-04-18

Now that wells have been tabooed in
Turkey, the Moslem women of Con-
stantinople carrI umbrellas to hide
their faces. N4Ea ss ".
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Crump's Uondon Financial Times)
index number for England:
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Hourly Sales on N. Y. Market.
liam. 602. 100 IL noon 1,037.900
1p.m. 1.362.700 2p.m.. 1858. 700

pm. 1.362.700 2p.m.. 1.658700
Dividend rates as given in the above table
are the annual cash payments based on the
Unless otherwise noted extra or special divi-
dends are not included.
Partly extra Plus 4 90 in stock. Pay
able in common stock Plus 2/5O in
stock. a Paid this year-no regular rate.
b Ten per cent in common stock, payable
2 u 60 quarterly C Plus 5% in stock. d Pay
stock Plus 10%s in stock, Plus 1850
share in stock. . b Plus 81 a share rein in g special
stock. k Payable LAO Of share quarterly
in Glass A stock, m Plus SSe in stock.
II Partly stock. . Plus So in preferred stock.
q Plus one-half of common stock.
Evening star., 1927-04-18
BANKERS GATHER
AT COLUMBIA CLUB
Annual Spring Get Together
Dinner Following Golf
Games Held Today.
BY EDWARD C. STONE.

Nearly 200 Washington bankers will
journey to the Columbia Country Club
late today to attend the annual get
together Spring dinner, which starts
at 1880 and which will be preceded by
gol@ for as many as care to go over
the course. AS many bank presidents,
other officials and directors as the club
headquarters can accommodate will be
present.
The dinner will bring together the
most important gathering of local
bankers before the annual convention
at Hot Springs in June. The pro-
gram, if it may be called such, is to
be wholly informal. One aim is to
arouse interest in the June meeting
and General Chairman Lanier p. Nc
Lachlen will no doubt make some
timely remarks on the subject. His
committee has set the goal for this
years attendance at 300 and every
effort will be made to reach this
figure.
President Howard Moran of the Dis
trict Bankers Association and Chair
man w. w. Spaid believe that to-
nights gathering will be unusually in
terasting. Several high officials in
the Treasury are among the invited
guests.
Evening star., 1927-04-18
GERMAN BONDS AND STOCKS

(Quoted in dollars per million marks.)
Ger ct (w ln) SIS 19I4-Is 1926 90 1885,
Hamburg 4 hs 19I9. 10000 l1O(
Evening star., 1927-04-18
Enlarge Trust Department.

The Riggs National Bank has found
it necessary to enlarge it's trust de-
partment and has added an open story
above the mezZanine over the main
entrance to the bank. The steel work
was done very expeditiously outside of
banking hours. Those in charge of
the trust department include Frank ].
Hogan, general counsel and trust Off
Ger; George NJ. Mckee and Kenneth
V. Brooks, assistant trust officers.
Evening star., 1927-04-18
Lanston Is Market Leader.

Lanston Monotype was the market
leader when the weeks trading open
ed on the local exchange today. 10
shares selling at 95 and 45 going at
954, an advance of a quarter Of a
point over recent quotations and max
ing new high on this move.
Thirty-five shares of Merchants
Transfer & Storage preferred changed
hands at 1O015. Washington Railway
G. Electric preferred again came out
at 90, while Potomac Electric Power
preferred registered 98. A 10-share lot
of Capital Traction sold at 1O4B.
There were two 10-share sales In
Washington Gas Light. the market
opening at 73A and closing at 1875.
Evening star., 1927-04-18
Hoover's Plan Reduces Waste.

Secretary Hoover has issued re-
port on the remarkable results accom-
plished by what is termed "simplitied
practice" In this report 81 articles in
common use are named, of which the
sizes or various forms have been re-
duced in number from 746,960 to 269,-
O07. states Capper's Weekly. In addi-
ton, thousands of warehouse forms
have been reduced to Is and thousands
Of commercial purchase forms to three.
Vitrif1ed paving brick has been brought
down from Sc to but 4 sizes. metal
lath from 125 to "a, milk bottles and
caps from So to 5, wire fence packages
from 2,072 to 1873, concrete building
units from 115 to "a, brass lavatory
and sink traps from lila to ", and
so on. All these changes have been
made on their merits, as the Com
merce Department has no power to
uSa pOnp1llSiOn
Evening star., 1927-04-18
Heard in Financial District.

New life insurance production was
5.8 per cent greater during March
of this year than of 1926. This re-
suit is shown by a compilation for
warded by the Association of Lie
Insurance Presidents to the United
States Department of Commerce.
The biggest event of the year in
local insurance circles takes place
next Thursday at Wardman Park
Hotel, when the Maryland and Dis
trict of Columbia Life Underwriters
Associations will hold congress. The
afternoon program will include talks
by leading life insurance men. John
r. Cremen, Evans Building, Is chair
man of the committee on reservations.
The brokerage firm of Scott &
Stringfellow, Richmond, has come to
the front as the third largest holder
of Chesapeake & Ohio common stock
57,130 shares. In the latest report
Frank r. Hope. New York, heads the
list with $4,000 shares, and Paine,
Webber & Co. stands second with H.
090 shares.
A. S. Goulden & Co., investment
bankers in the Woodward Building,
have taken a larger suite of offices.
Evening star., 1927-04-18
Oil Heater Sales Soaring.

Sales Of oil burners for domestic
heating purposes last year. the tenth
in the history of the industry, totaled
about S65, 900 900, according to Morgan
j. Hammers, member of the Oil
Heating Institute. This compares
with sales of SIC 100000 in the tenth
year of the automobile industry. then
considered the eighth wonder of the
world.