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...figures available for the month of March show receipts on the New York market of 21,000,000 Ib. of dressed poultry, as compared with 17,000,000 Ib. of live poultry...
...their crop production and thus boost prices was to have been raised by a tax on processors of wheat, cotton, corn, rice, hogs, tobacco and dairy products. To be effective domestically such a tax had to be counterbalanced by special tariff increase. Thus if a 2? per Ib. tax was placed on butter, 2?would have to be added to the regular butter duty to prevent importers from underselling the U. S. market. But President Roosevelt had agreed without reservations to a general tariff truce, accepted last week by seven powers and offered to 58 more, as a preliminary...
Germany and Italy also reserved the right to fix surtaxes against a depreciated dollar. Last week Germany raised its duty on lard 50% to 75 marks per 100 kilos (220 Ib...
...over Germany similar pyres blazed with similar books. In the Romerberg, Frankfurt's medieval marketplace, a band played Chopin's Funeral March during the firing. In Munich only 100 books were burned, yanked from the shelves of the University library. Breslau boasted that it burned 5,000 Ib. of heretical works, Kiel burned 2,000 volumes...
...vaults. In the Salvor, backed by Vincent Astor & friends, Captain Harry L. Bowdoin set out to catch the prize. Aboard he carried stout metal cylinders with movable legs and arms attached, which were to enable his divers to work comfortably at great depths. The weighty apparatus (1,400 Ib. at the surface) is also equipped with searchlights. Also aboard, Captain Bowdoin carried small arms and machine-guns, prepared for naval battle with high-jackers or covetous rivals. Just what happened at the wreck scene the Coast Guard did not report, but presently a Captain John Hall of the Theresa...