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...Congress President Roosevelt sent a message urging repeal of the 3? a Ib. tax on coconut oil imposed by the Revenue Act of 1934. Chief points: 1) the tax was a breach of faith because the Philippines had been promised, under the Philippine Independence Act, the right to ship 448,000,000 Ib. of coconut oil into the U. S. duty free; 2) the tax would bring destitution on thousands of Philippine coconut oil workers...
...most important manufacturing sources of illegal opium and heroin. Last week came another League report on opium, and its charges against Bulgaria were stronger. Stuart J. Fuller of the U. S. revealed that in 1933 Bulgaria imported enough acetic acid anhydride to manufacture 13,000 Ib. of heroin, four times the legitimate needs of the entire world. Col. Charles Henry Sharman of Canada charged that Bulgarian production of raw opium rose from 8,880 Ib. in 1931 to 99,000 Ib. in 1932, to 143,000 Ib. in 1933. Dr. Augusto de Vasconcellos of Portugal summed up: "The figure cited...
...mining towns of Colorado. When he visited Germany again in 1898 he brought back a bag of beet seed, helped set up Colorado's first beet mill at Grand Junction. Great Western today operates 22 factories, 13 of them in Colorado, produces annually 10,000,000 bags (100 Ib. per bag). Charles Boettcher is vice president and member of the executive committee. His son Claude Kedzie Boettcher is a Great Western director as well as board chairman of the $24,000,000 Denver National Bank and of the Denver & Intermountain Ry. Charles 2nd, Claude's son, operates...
...paper maker and a paper broker gave a tea in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria for Author Hervey Allen. Occasion: Sale of the 400,000th copy of his Anthony Adverse. Reason: 400,000 copies equal 952,000 Ib. of paper...
...Zealand but, straying over the world, it has been seen as far north as Cape Cod. Largest ever caught was hooked off New Zealand in 1931 by one H. Wickham-White. It was 11 ft. 6 in. long, 6 ft. 2 in. in girth and weighed 798 Ib. No man-eating has been proved against the mako, but fishermen who have fearfully watched its great, jagged teeth snap their oars, rip off their rudders and crunch their boats' sides would rather not make the test. Fisherman Grey puts mako fishing in a class with tiger and elephant hunting...