Word: meats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they sell knives, tumblers, toothpaste, soap, pins, pencils, notebooks, candy, sandwiches, tea, coffee. And last week Mr. Gordeeff claimed for U. S. tourists' ears that some Torgsin prices are still lower than current U. S. prices. Some prices: 1 lb. of chocolate caramels, 23?; 1 lb. of canned meat, 12?; ½ lb. of black caviar, $1.15; a cotton dress, from 68? to $3.20; a beret, 16?; wool mittens, 16?; a towel, 22?; a handkerchief, 3?; a pair of men's boots, $3.32; a frying...
MEMORIES OF MY CHILDHOOD-Selma Lagerlöf-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). For human character, as for meat, salt preservative. Selma Lagerlöf is an old lady but she is salty. Best-loved Swedish writer, she is no Pollyanna but a wideawake female citizen whose rose-colored spectacles sometimes conceal but rarely lessen the knowing twinkle in her eye. Far enough removed from her own childhood (she is 75) to be forgivably sentimental about it, she writes with her accustomed sub-humorous kindliness of the little girl she was. Readers who missed the first volume of her reminiscences (Marbacka...
...have meat, others have none...
...year-old tramp S. S. Maiotis with Brother Samuel as its only passenger had cleared the Dardanelles, barged up the Sea of Marmora and dropped anchor in the Bosporus off Leander's Tower. Later Stavro Chelebides, agent for the Maiotis, brought out from shore potatoes, macaroni, meat and salad greens for Mr. Insull who had been desperately sick in the Aegean on a diet of boiled chicken. Fresh water was taken aboard so the Maiotis could sail that afternoon...
Foreign trade of $295,000,000 in February was the best for that month in three years. February electric refrigerator sales set an all-time record for the month with 82,000 units against a previous high of 53,000 in 1931. February meat sales were 5% above January and 44% above February 1933. Railroad earnings were 191% above February 1933. Commodity prices last week continued weak. Exceptions: eggs, lemons, peanuts and cloverseed...