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Secretary of Commerce Hoover grew downright irritated last week at the jugglery of the German-French potash monopoly. His Prospero* calm had left him. He ordered that $100,000 be given to national geological survey and bureau of mines explorers to hunt for potash deposits in Texas...
Partners Again. Potash and Perlmutter, old friends, herewith entertain again and in the main uproariously. George Sidney and Alexander Carr are the actors. The plot tells how the partners went into the movies...
...There are at present governmentally controlled combinations in nine raw materials?Egyptian long staple cotton, camphor, coffee, iodine, nitrates, potash, mercury, rubber and sisal. At present prices, if we maintain our present rate of consumption, these commodities will cost us about...
...House of Representatives last week passed a resolution providing for a committee investigation of "the means and methods of control of production and exportation of crude rubber, coffee, silk, nitrates, potash, quinine, iodine, tin, sisal (a fibre used for cordage), quicksilver, pulpwood . . . their effects upon the commerce of the United States, both as to supply and to price...
...UNDERSTAND?Montague Glass ?Doubleday, Page ($2.00). Since Abie's Irish Rose stole his long-rumbling thunder, not much has been seen or heard of the author of Potash and Perlmutter. Somehow, the Jews presented in Y'Understand (eight short stories) seem modernized, less Semitic than their forerunners. Perhaps that is mere geography: "Blood Is Redder Than Water" (mistaken identity in a fight over women and a will) transpires at Rockaway Beach, L. I.; "Cousins of Convenience" (a comedy of clothes) hints at the annual hegira to Florida; "Never Begin with Lions" (cinema tribulations) is in Los Angeles...