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...start with, we will collect 1,000 cats. Each cat will average twelve kittens a year. The skins will sell for from ten cents for the white ones to 75¢ for the pure black. We will have about twelve million skins to sell at an average of 30?? apiece, making our revenue about $10,000 per day, gross...
...franc teetered sickeningly last week, plunged from 31½% to the dollar to 35 1/3, steadied, gathered strength, skyrocketed to 30??%. Though explanations were many, two facts stood out sharply. Just before the franc's toboggan, Finance Minister Peret was obliged to announce that pourparlers for definitely funding the Franco-British debt had broken down between himself and Chancellor Winston Churchill of the British Exchequer at London. Conversely, the franc rose as soon as the French Cabinet and the Bank of France announced, after M. Peret's return to Paris from London, that the French Government would, if necessary, employ...
...British Commonwealth produces nearly three quarters of the world's crude rubber and the U. S. consumes about the same proportion. During the War prices were about 50¢ a pound. Following the War, prices dropped to around 17¢. A fair price is somewhere in the neighborhood of 30?? or 35¢. Following the War the British rubber producers were in much the same trouble that U. S. agriculture is in today?overproduction and ruinously low prices. To remedy this a special type of export tax was devised to reduce the production of rubber. It was so arranged as to discourage production...
...announcement that Mr. Firestone made last week. The background for this story is that the British and Dutch control 97% of the world's rubber production. Britain has placed legal restrictions on rubber production which has boosted the price in a few months from about 25¢ or 30?? a pound to more than...
...Next morning dawned in wind and rain, 30?? cooler than the day before. Crowds, undeterred, gathered before the Kellogg house. Shortly before noon, the President came out, motored across to Minneapolis for luncheon, so that the twin cities might not fall out in jealousy. For luncheon at the Nicollet Hotel, food was served, not speeches. Then the party drove to the State Fair Grounds?neutral territory between the rivalrous twins. No President had been in the vicinity since President Wilson called in 1919. In 1921, Vice President Coolidge spoke at that very spot and met a chilly reception. In spite...