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...cartel at 52¢ per lb. means steady employment in Bolivia, Siam, Nigeria, Dutch East Indies and the Malaya States. When silk rises from its Depression low to its price last week of $1.20 per lb., Japan can and does buy more scrap steel from the U. S. Sugar at 2?? per lb. for the first time in four years may in time permit the U. S. to regain a $150,000,000 Cuban export market, now almost vanished. Better prices for shellac and pepper, favorites of boisterous Speculator Bernard E. ("Sell 'Em Ben") Smith, better prices for jute, hemp, antimony...
When locusts began to swarm over the wheat fields of Argentina last fortnight, the Minister of Agriculture was ready with a plan. He proposed to pay eight centavos (2??¢) to anybody who could fill a 100-lb. sack with locusts, bring them to the Government to be soaked in gasoline and buried...
...were icebound and had to be fed by airplane. Temperatures recorded included ?4° at Lynchburg, Va., ?6° at Washington, ?8° at Richmond, ?8° at Atlantic City, ?26° at Buffalo, ?12° at Toledo, ?34° at Sault Ste. Marie, ?10° at Duluth, ?2?? at Chicago, ?16° at Detroit. Total death toll from cold: 40. *Biggest year's expenditure for the British dole...
Gold Reserve: 2?? billion dollars last week, compared to the U. S.'s 4 2/5 billions and Britain's ½ billion...
...public payrolls have been loaded down with his fawning followers. Under him New Orleans has slipped from second to fifth among U. S. ports. Prisons are so overcrowded that last week Governor Allen had to release hundreds of offenders to save money. The gasoline tax has been upped from 2?? to 6¢. A 4¢ tax is imposed on 15¢ cigarets. Last week Senator Long ordered 100 highway police to stop tax-dodgers from smuggling gasoline and cigarets into the State, warned them not to molest liquor 'leggers. Soft drinks, life insurance premiums, electricity and corporate capitalization are also heavily taxed...