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...Alexandra Naldera Metcalfe to have Joseph Leiter of Chicago ousted as trustee of his father's $30,000,000 estate. Joseph Leiter's sister and nieces claimed that he had spent $7,000.000 too much in developing Wyoming ranch lands, that he was extravagant personally, having once ordered 50 doz. pairs of silk socks. He cried: "I am a hard-headed American businessman. While my sisters were going to Europe, marrying titles, I stayed by our property and managed it!" He proved that he had increased its working capital from $12,920,000 to $17,387,000 in cash...
...President Hoover last week began to flex "injustices and inequalities" out of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act. On the recommendations of his new Tariff Commission he cut the rates on woodflour (33¼"% to 25% ad valorem), pigskin leather (25% to 15%), straw hats ($4 per doz. plus 60% to $3 per doz. plus 50%), maple sugar (8? to 6? per lb.). Upped were the rates on woven wire fencing and netting (45% to 50% and 60%). Explanation of the Commission's celerity in investigating these rate cases was its use of foreign invoice values on imports...
...Eggs (doz...
...Eggs (Doz.) 8¢ 10¢ 10?...
...most important phase of the U. S. egg market is the, use of fresh, or shell eggs, for freezing (breaking them and placing them in 30-lb. containers in which they are frozen and then kept at from zero to 5° Cent.). Annually 6,000,000 cases (30 doz. in a case) are "broken out" for this purpose, used extensively by wholesale bakers. Recently frozen eggs have been used to some extent by manufacturers of macaroni, mayonnaise, ice cream and candy, who previously used only dried eggs imported exclusively from China. China, the only competitor...