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...Recently it adopted and sent to Washington a resolution calling upon the Treasury to use an all-cotton paper stock for U. S. currency.* Last week Acting Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills, replying to the chamber's general manager, rejected the suggestion on the ground that linen stock gives paper money great durability. During the War when Irish linen was scarce the U. S. used cotton stock but discovered that it stretched and tore...
...into this chamber to witness the opening of the biggest railroad rate case in a decade. The thermometer outside on Pennsylvania Ave. stood at 98°. Everyone was in his shirtsleeves and a frank sweat. The mahogany paint melted from the metal chairs, stained many a pair of linen trousers. On the dais which runs the width of the room sat I. C. Commissioner Balthasar Henry Meyer, presiding, flanked by Commissioners Ernest Irving Lewis and William Erwin Lee, assigned to the case. Commissioner Lee kept himself cool by waving a silk fan. Sitting in on the case unofficially was Commissioner...
From the Treasury basement, where gold is stored, to the east wing of the White House runs a dark little tunnel under East Executive Avenue. Many times through this tunnel last week passed a thickset, youngish man with a big nose and eyes of clearest blue. He wore a linen suit. His teeth bit hard into a Benson & Hedges cigar. He walked fast. Out of the tunnel he skirted the rear portico of the White House (where the presidential kennels are), paced down the west colonnade, marched unannounced by a back door into the offices of the President...
...into the market. Lead and zinc followed along. Typical of the increase in trading was the excitement in Manhattan's Raw Silk Exchange where trading reached almost 4.000 bales a day after being at 80 a few weeks ago. Startled pages and clerks hurried to put their summer linen-suits on a fortnight ahead of time. In Tokio, Japanese bears talked of harakiri. On the Coffee & Sugar Exchange, Manhattan, coffee continued its recent rise which had begun to die out; sugar started its first rally in months. Some $25,000,000 was added to the value of sugar supplies...
...Shute, who placed fourth in the Open two years ago; he gave the youngest British player, 25-year-old Bert Hodson, the worst beating of all, eight up and six to play. The U. S. team needed one more match and got it when its captain, Walter Hagen, a linen hat pulled down on the back of his thick neck, pursued by a small boy with an armful of American flags to show how far ahead he was, finished four up over Charles Whitcombe after 33 holes. When the last scores were posted, the U. S. had won, 9 matches...