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...plan has worked beautifully for the five smaller producers (Czechoslovakia, Poland, Germany, Hungary and Belgium) but Cuba which a year ago had a surplus of 1,300,000 tons, has today, after reducing her production by one-third, a surplus of 1,540,000 tons. Java, which a year ago had a surplus of 700,000 tons, is likely by the first of April to have a surplus of 1,400,000 tons. And the price of sugar (Cuban raw) is 1.14? per Ib. compared to 1.38? a year ago. All because the world used still less sugar...
Born Lilith Witt, in Madiun, Java. Lil Dagover was educated, by European schools and tutors, out of her original ambition to marry a pastry cook. One of Germany's four most celebrated cinemactresses, she is 5 ft. 6 in., 103 lb., single...
Author Cuppy covers the entire rise of Man, from the Java to the Modern Man ("or Nervous Wreck") in 14 pages. He concludes this section: "All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people." In brief but adequate sketches he disposes of the Apes. "When a Chimpanzee looks at another Chimp he does not see what we see. They frequently have twins." Author Cuppy can jargon with the best of them: "The Gorilla could do with more brains. His corpus callosum is not very good but the hippocampus major...
...Cuba has loyally cooperated; President Machado has thrown all his dictatorial power behind the plan. Last week the Dutch growers contended that a technicality in the Chadbourne agreement exempts "present crops" from limitation, and contended that since their crop contracts are made 14 months in advance, limitation of the Java crop would not begin until the spring harvest of 1933. Cubans, who contend that even current standing crops are pledged to be left standing to rot in the fields, protested quietly and firmly last week, until the International Sugar Council adjourned for Christmas...
Seven foreign countries are represented in the Class of 1936, three men coming from England and one from Switzer-land,-Guatemala, Abyssinia, Brazil, Java, and China, respectively. This number shows a decrease of two from last year. Hawaii, Porto Rico the Philippines, and Cuba are also represented...