The Archive · 1934

CENTIPEDES NEEDED

There 1s enough woof produced nowadays to supply thirteen ounces of wool to every person In the world find to ive every man a new sult very" five. years, according expert estimate, One machine" today Is capable of turning out twenty dozen parte. of rocks In eight ours. competent operator can ook after tsen machines, which means. that Invone year ho cam turn ott 990000 pairs of socks, "The responsibility For producing. all these socks fs. fumed apparently without. thought for who is to wear them. With the human. race handicapped by. having Oni two feet andthe. section of them that favour woollen footwear HrleiyHinited, there can be. tle Surprise if, from time. to. time, Strplus of such socks te reported. the, mechanical. effclency' of the the rote it has de during the last ing Industry improves at 5 the rate It has done during the few years, while the number of feet Stands sti, a crisis would seem to elite, Fo ep! the compe: tent operator employed a. race fentinedes would be needed grim Grouent to those parents in whose furs the ery fs so constantly ringing "Baby needs new shots Acconmc to a Nenking report there are sixteen paper factories in Shanehal. Hangchow and Fukien. The Ministry of Industry ts planning to improve the quality and marketing of Chinese machine-made paper.

Smer the opening there of a special hospital to deal with addicts. tne Tess than 2000. opium smokers have been treated in Peking by the municipal bureau of health. Most of the patients were between the ages of 25 and 50.

One of the largest model silk; factories in this country is being, planned for erection in Hangchow by the joint enterprise of Chekfanz and Kiangsu industrialists. Tt fs) expected to start operations before the beginning of the coming year.

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