Word: ib
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after day, month after month, clouds of oily, aromatic smoke billow up from the dumps on which Brazil's Government continues to burn coffee in a frantic effort to support its price. Last week the Government announced that since June 1931 over 14 million bags (containing 132 Ib. of coffee each) have been destroyed- the greatest wilful, peacetime destruction of property on record...
Today Santos coffee sells for around 8? per Ib. It sold for an average price of 10 7/10? in 1932 (partly because of the favorable effect of Brazil's most bloody revolution), fetched in 1931 not quite...
...Cuba's eastern provinces, but there seemed to be no coordinating leadership, no Revolution with a big R. Bands of guerrillas raided towns and military outposts, burned plantations, cut wires, dynamited railroad tracks. A bloody skirmish was fought in Camaguey province. In Oriente rebels burned 200,000,000 Ib. of sugar cane at the Manati sugar mill. At Manzanillo a mob stormed the office of Cuban Electric Co. (subsidiary of Electric Bond & Share). Four trains were derailed. Another reached Havana bullet-riddled...
Word that typewriters, revolver shots and police sirens would concatenate in Carnegie Hall, last week drew a crowd unaccustomed to entering Manhattan's most formal music house. Theatre folk, songwriters and newspapermen flocked to hear tabloid Paul Whiteman (126 Ib. thinner than he used to be) play Tabloid. It had been written for him by his oldtime orchestrator, squat, baldish Ferde Grofé who now runs the Grofé Realty Co. in Teaneck...
Born. To Albert James ("Albie") Booth Jr., Yale's 1931 football captain, and Marion Noble Booth; a daughter (first child); in New Haven, Conn., where Booth now promotes a professional basketball team, plans to sell insurance in the spring. Weight: 6 Ib...