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...Government lost its suit to enjoin the New York Coffee ant Sugar Exchange. Four Federal judges refused to grant the requested injunction against trading in sugar futures, on the ground that no conspiracy in violation of the Sherman Act or the Wilson Tariff Act was revealed. Attorney General Daugherty announced his intention of appealing the decision to the U. S. Supreme Court. Meanwhile U. S. District Attorney Hayward has issued subpoenas upon sugar brokers to produce their books before the Federal Grand Jury, with the implication that a Grand Jury investigation into the sugar market was projected, although aimed...
...anxious to know " The Inside Stuff on Legit? " Variety will tell you. Do you happen to want an ant-eater for a pet or to know just exactly what the home folks in Terre Haute are seeing in the way of vaudeville? The Clipper can quote you a price on one and the entire bill of the other...
People have shuddered in reading about the famous plagues of history,--the swarms of files which soured Egyptian tempers, the campaigns of the African ant-armies, the rats of Hamburg which the Pled Piper charmed with his pipe. But these pale before the contemporary radio plague. It has swept the country, closed the family phonograph, put dust on the family piano. No Pied Piper has come forward to charm it into the ocean so a radio council has gathered at Washington to control the tyranny...
...National Cotton Conference for Boll Weevil Control that inasmuch as insects are guided by smell, it might be possible to destroy the boll weevil by baiting traps with the scent of the female. If the method could be developed it might be made effective against the house fly, mosquito, ant, and other pests...
...Madam" is cheerful reading. Wellspring and well-written it tell it pleas ant tale pleasantly...