Word: maye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...points for two days. Each point is 1/100?. What the howlers called "Dec-Santos!" (coffee from Santos, Brazil, for December delivery) fell, for example, one day from 19.25? to 17.25?, recovered somewhat, hit bottom the next day at 16.65?. Such a plunge, such an unsettling of coffee futures may spell eventually the loss of millions to coffee hoarding speculators, overloaded and waiting for a rise. Brazil, world's greatest coffee producer, is also the nation of most colossal coffee hoarding. Last week Vice President Benjamin B. Peabody of the New York Exchange unhesitatingly attributed the crash in coffee futures...
...Amundsen did. Sir Douglas does not intend to visit Commander Byrd. His aim is to explore the Antarctic coast south of Australia and prepossess it for his dominion. Formal and hurried pre occupation is important, for it would vest in Australia rights to fisheries and miner als which later may be found...
...Douglas may, however, be too tardy. Quietly the Norwegians have sent ships to forestall him. If they can plant their Norwegian flag on hitherto unclaimed coastal land they may avoid paying Australia or Great Britain taxes...
...been forced to occasional vaudeville towns, to doing Modiste over the radio, taking a turn at legitimate dramatics. The brilliant career of a captivating person might thus have tapered away into nothing had it not been for last week's revival. Now, due to its success, Modiste may go on tour again...
...alliance with the United Cigar Stores, seemed impregnable, this year cigaret price-cutting slashed into the profits. A report in April disclosed that of seven directors David A. Schulte held 33,000 shares of common stock, Joseph M. Schulte 202, another director 10, the remaining four none. On May 1 the dividend was passed...