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...President, on the Commission's advice, increased three duties (wire fencing, wire netting and Fourdrinier wire), reduced seven (maple sugar and syrup, straw hats, pigskin leather, edible gelatine, wood flour, wool felt hats), let stand unchanged six (ultramarine blue, wool floor coverings, pipes, pipe bowls, cigar and cigaret holders). The Commission's recommendation to cut the rates on canning tomatoes, tomato paste and cherries, sulphured or in brine, President Hoover rejected. Last week's flexing made the President's tariff score: rates cut, 11; rates upped, 6; rates unchanged, 14; total, 31. There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: Up: 3 ; Down: 4 | 7/6/1931 | See Source »

...into Russia, 1,000 mi. of "hedgehopping" under a creeping low ceiling of fog and rain. But Post & Gatty appeared fresh and vigorous to the Ossoviakhim (Soviet Society for Aviation and Chemical Defense) who greeted them late that after- noon. Someone in the crowd offered Gatty a Russian cigaret, but he was still smoking from a pack bought in New York, "day before yesterday." There was a nine-course dinner at the Grand Hotel, champagne spurned again by the flyers. Two hours rest, then out to the airport soon after midnight. Here the take-off was delayed because Russian mechanics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Two Men in a Hurry | 7/6/1931 | See Source »

...leading stocks gained $4,159,000,000 in value. Bullish rumors ran wild; there were tales of tremendous pools being formed, huge mergers in the making. Concrete bullish news, in addition to the moratorium, was the favorable decision to Radio Corp. (see p. 12), the raising of the wholesale cigaret price, the declaration of the regular dividends by Westinghouse, Anaconda, Baltimore & Ohio. Stocks with interests in South America soared on a baseless rumor that the President would soon make an important announcement regarding credits to Latin American countries (see p. 10). Long deferred investment buying appeared. Vivid tales were told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Markets | 7/6/1931 | See Source »

Wrestler Jim Londos who had won a match the night before put a bet on Sweep All, horse of Charles T. Fisher (Bodies). Barney Oldfield, smoking a cigaret, sat on the club house veranda talking to Jack Curley who once taught him how to ride a bicycle. Boxer Max Schmeling stood and looked at the crowd with his habitually puzzled expression. Actress Queenie Smith made excited comments to her escort Drama critic Robert Garland. Blind Thomas Pryor Gore, onetime Senator from Oklahoma said he liked Twenty Grand. John Hertz remembered the year his Reigh Count won the Derby. Jockey Earl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Kentucky Derby | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

...believe that this article is rather misleading to the public, as it would tend to give the impression that, the Schweitzer mill is the only mill equipped to make cigaret tissue, when as a matter of fact, there are three in this country; namely, Smith Paper Co., Lee, Mass., Schweitzer and ourselves. All three of these mills for several years past have been producing identical grades of paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 4, 1931 | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

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