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...conferred upon these elders, Osaka's chatty Mainichi could not resist chattering that neither Mr. Takahashi, an old fox, now Finance Minister for the seventh time, nor Baron Yamamoto, an astute banker and Mitsubishi executive, has any real need of a cane. Chirped Mainichi: "Baron Yamamoto weighs 155 Ib. and has rosy cheeks. His hobbies are net fishing and archery, and he attributes his health to these...
...brought the rise to a quick halt in September by stubbornly refusing to buy. Now that the beef and hog shortage is really a market factor meat prices are again climbing. The supply of fresh butter has dwindled so rapidly that dealers are drawing from storage 1,000,000 Ib. daily to meet demand, and stocks on hand at the beginning of February were only 18,000,000 Ib. as against 76,000,000 Ib. at the same time last year. Retail prices have jumped from 35? per lb. in November to as high as 51?. In December sale...
Capitalizing on the British craze for commodity speculation that started in 1932, a pool lofted the price of pepper from 18? per Ib. last autumn to 31?. That attracted the attention of Indian exporters, who promptly began to shake all their pepper on the pool. By last week London warehouses were bursting with no less than 42,000,000 Ib.-a three-year supply...
...settlement day," when the pepper plungers would have to lay nearly $10,000,000 cash on the line for their contracts, came news that a fresh pepper shipment of 13,000,000 Ib. was London-bound aboard a steamer ploughing up the Red Sea. And when Garabed Bishirgian returned from his week end with his 600 pigs in Surrey, he found that pepper trading had been suspended...
Final casualty was Rolls & Sons, a 75-year-old produce house, which was unable to meet its obligations when the pepper market reopened with the settlement price fixed at 16? per Ib., a 45% drop...