Thomas A. Edison declared him self in favour of the additional sought in Congress for] Prohibition enforcement, announce: he hiad found forty rubber substitute plants which can be cultivated on a large scale and condemned increasing. stock speculation as leading] ultimately to panic, in his annual] interview on his eighty-second birth. das out the possibility of] rubber reduction at some future States bordering: on the Gulf] to compete with the} bordering on the cow plant rubber farmer n case of war prices, hut lo in the future wap with, the you have teand a ph solve the rub problems in do hope to!
Shipping Department.
In accord. ance with the sot the East Asiatic Company, when established 32 years ago, and in conformity have found aver twelve hundred plants. to produce rubbery"
"d, "about forty ear, be cultivated with the principles then down, His views on rubber cultivate the Company's ocean and auxiliary routes have hoon developed with due) Mle, Public forthe Tented to circumateeee Sri class time attracted considerable into the ocean lines and a number of nécatse the ulti routes hav been tablished in associat other shipping concerns and Pany's own affiliated view of the expansion an icipated Company in its scope of operations, it has planed the con struction of a number of meterships for the Company's ocean routes. In 2 pound, extended wide provement far st Troon se ese with his rah ison revealed the' hax purchase a 2 Geonzia wher he which mately 78,000 gross register tons, id will be built in Denmark on the basis of the consummate experience rained by the Company during its advancement. Besides being an im portant correlative factor in the entire organization, the Company's tect in itself constitutes a direct Font will bret them, and vern gre for hi ison said. "There tween 1.200 and 1,108 plants that will produce rubber." Even the ents inst profit-earning proposition, which to degree hae contributed to asked it shoul Nave the profits earned by the fleet durin; the past sear can be regarded ood. The Compans"s vast, Aus min, Strits Settle-South Atria ave been intel wits a coe this year hot the business will ce Mlevelaped in conformity! around tein to and at the close of the! ial. Departments. The Company's commer-ay" be divided into rade, tinent, the interehanze of Tocal products between countries or spheres, close proximity to each other.
The sources of supply for export and sport are the correlative within the Company's orand the system of ranches, affiliated concerns and orveral as industrial undertakings are consumers of raw materials and suppliers of the finished commodity.
The Head Office's total turnover in 1928 amounted to over one mil-lopments, 1 wan United Press, jon tons, against anprosimately 7A0,000 tons in 1927. Of this quantity about 700,000 tans were carried by ships of other, a: tion and nature, has its own part cular purpose within the organization, and in most spheres expedient extensions are continually being made, the Company thus daring the course of the year extending ele of operations to Bri preliminarily with an office at Mad-
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