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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Joseph Marchette in Yonkers, N. Y., wanted a robin pie; he quickly shot a robin. The robin was taken away from him and he was given a fine...
...restrictions on production of sugar cane. Producers had made calculations, had figured that Cuba's sugar crop, now over 4,000,000 tons, without restriction would reach 4,500,000, perhaps 5,000,000. Yet U. S. sugar men frowned, last week, when the conservative Journal of Commerce (N. Y.) reported the word "determined" as issuing from the Presidential mouth of Cuba's Gen. Gerardo Machado y Morales. Still frowning, sugarmen considered an appeal to Congress to boost tariff rates, another appeal to Cuban producers to conclude a "Gentleman's Agreement...
Brother Gus, who is chairman of the board of the Federal Sugar Refining Co. (N. Y.) calls himself a sugar refiner. Brother Rudolph, who is president, calls himself "civic reformer," "banker...
...motors that can carry it and a 7½ ton load at 130 m. p. h. cruising speed, at 155 m. p. h. high speed. In its cabin is one stateroom with a sleeping compartment, and seats for 20 passengers and two pilots. Keystone's President Edgar N. Gott named it the Patrician...
Radio. At Linden, N. J., Standard Oil is erecting a lofty aerial as the first mesh in a projected world radio network to keep all its marine and land plants in constant communication...