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...wholly dependent on coffee, now selling at 9½¢ against a Depression low of 5¼¢. When rubber jumps from 10¢ per lb. to 17¢ as it has in the past six months, five times five million souls throughout British Malaya and Dutch East Indies are the gainers. When cocoa rises 1½¢ per lb. from its year's low of 4¼¢, as it did last week, native growers all along Africa's west coast rejoice. The fact that tin is being held tight by a tight-fisted cartel at 52¢ per lb. means steady employment in Bolivia, Siam...
...busily noting what he saw and felt. At Southampton the great liners made him proud but a talk with a steward made him wonder. The Wills Gold Flake (cigaret) factory at Bristol pleased him. But the suburbs of Birmingham he found "beastly," and the benevolent despotism of Cadbury's cocoa factory at Bournville depressed him. Cutting through the Cotswold Hills he came on Chipping Campden, medieval wool trade centre, now a carefully preserved Arcadia, and Broadway, whose fame as a pretty village has attracted swarms of bright young people "in gamboge and vermilion sports cars...
Nine-cent copper was preceded by the broadest buying in months (see p. 56). Cocoa trading (5½? per Ib.) was the heaviest of the year. Hides were strong, and sugar hit a four-year high at 1.88? per pound for May futures. Wool was inactive at 90? per Ib. Silver trading has slowed to a practical standstill since announcement of a proposed 50% tax on all profits derived from sales of bullion to the Government, and the price has hung around 45? per ounce. Side by side with climbing commodity prices this spring has been an expanding public interest...
Timothy Trebitsch near Budapest in 1879. Going to England at 20, he tacked "Lincoln" on his name, became a Lutheran missionary, then an Anglican curate, then a Quaker. As secretary to a cocoa manufacturer he turned to politics, got elected an M. P. A censor during the War, Trebitsch-Lincoln proudly recounts that he was a spy for both sides. But when England tried and convicted him it was for forgery. In 1920 he was again a censor, this time in Berlin where he said he helped General Ludendorff in the Kapp putsch. Harried from nation to nation and everywhere...
When Empress Waizeru Menen of Abyssinia (TIME, Oct. 9) walked into the Mograbi Opera House in Tel-Aviv to witness the performance of Rigoletto by the Palestine Opera Company, she was one and a half hours late and she did not "waddle like an ambulating lump of cocoa butter." Hindered on all sides by thousands who thronged the square in front of the building to see the modern Queen of Sheba, her walk, though slow and halting, was nonetheless queenly. Were she slimmer, eyes on Lenox Avenue would raise a notch as she passed...