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...corn duty was moved up from 15?? to 25¢ per bushel (30¢ was the farm demand). Beef went up from 3¢ to 6¢ per pound (farmers wanted an 8¢ rate). Butter was left at 12¢ per lb., whither President Coolidge had temporarily raised it from 8¢. Tariff duties on milk and cream were doubled. Poultry & eggs, lard & swine, vegetables & fruits all moved up proportionately on the new tariff scale...
Farmers looked at what they got, at what they had asked and frowned. Flaxseed had been held at 56¢ per lb. when they had demanded an 84¢ duty. Their 15?? butter rate had been spurned. They found hides still on the free list and no provision for obstructing the free importation of vegetable oils from the Philippines. Where they had asked for an 8¢ duty on casein, the House Committee gave them a 2½¢ duty. The U. S. husbandman's representatives were loud with the U. S. husbandman's disgust...
...price of copper last week reached its highest point in the last nine years. Copper for export was quoted at 18¼¢ per pound, domestic copper at 18¢. Copper had been steady at around 15?? since October...
John Davison Rockefeller Jr., 55, is 5 ft, 10 in. tall, weighs 170 Ibs., and has six children. As a youngster he broke stone and split wood on his father's estate in Cleveland for 15?? an hour, also earned 5¢ an hour for practicing on the violin. Now he keeps in condition by playing squash and using gymnasium apparatus. He is one of the quietest men in the public...
...wished to purchase Panorama and continue publishing it. He said that his offer of a "large sum of money" had been refused, that the cost of the venture had been $63,000. He sketched briefly the history of Panorama; it opened at 25¢ a copy in October, dropped to 15?? in November. Advertising rates picked up slowly. Its circulation was 7,000 at the close. Said Editor Mayer: "Panorama is not yet dead...