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Last week the trade buzzed with talk that a big manufacturer of chocolate coatings had skimmed the froth from the boiling cocoa pot. But the usual candidates for the role of "titanic forces" are "British interests"-an old bogey of the U. S. cocoa market. Because they are better informed than anyone else on the important West African crop, British traders have been known to take U. S. speculators for a fast ride. Last week cocoa men were passing around a story that United Africa Co. Ltd., greatest single trader and shipper on the British Gold Coast, was depressing...
...attempt to froth a happy ending over Ramona's widow-weeds is not a major flaw. The picture is so pictorially arresting it might almost do without a story. Dark cottonwoods and yellow wheat, the greens and reds and rolling con-tours of the San Jacinto mountains where it was filmed, spread themselves out for the technicolor camera like a war-chief's blanket. Historically accurate since there has been little change in the landscape since 1870, Ramona pours its eye-filling opulence through many frames: Ramona's wedding breakfast, the horse race at the Fiesta, Alesandro...
...experiments, Professor Henry Barnett McDonnell, University of Maryland, reported last week that low concentrations of ozone shorten the lives of guinea pigs. "When inhaled in higher concentrations," he said, "it is a violent irritant of the mucous membranes and reacts chemically with the mucus to form a thick froth which . . . stops the air supply to the lungs almost completely in a minute...
...possible political repercussions, rather than the unethical and probably illegal aspects of the measure, which attract attention. Somewhat dormant recently, popular feeling and fears about recovery would be sufficiently whipped into a froth to reenforce Republican sentiment. The two proponents are, indeed, Republicans, but of the insurgent variety and they draw most of their support from the Democratic ranks. The real suggestibility of the measure, if it develops momentum, lies in what position Senator Borah might be forced to take, with his long record of favoring farmers and inflationists...
...less than fifteen ephemeral publications have glimpsed the light of a University day since the gay nineties squandered money on superfluous petticoats. Ranging from a weighty political work like the "Harvard Democrat" to such froth as the "Harvard Brewers' Gazette", most of them were lucky if issue number two ever came off the press...