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...impetuous, had Ambassador Jusserand visit the State Department and talk with Secretary Hughes. It, too, will probably make no formal protest until it is evident what the United States actually purposes doing. French, Italian and Spanish law requires that seamen on ships of those nationalities have a daily liquor ration. So there will be a direct clash between the laws of at least three countries and that of the United States. Ambassador Jusserand pointed this out to Mr. Hughes...
...known. It is understood that Great Britain would decline to grant any extension of the three-mile limit. It is possible that Great Britain might notify the United States of ships clearing from British ports with large liquor cargoes. The suggestion that the Bahamas be placed on a liquor ration, however, is apparently not favored in the British Colonial office, as appears from statements in the House of Commons by Undersecretary W. G. A. Ormsby-Gore. A representative of the Christian Science Monitor, however, was " informed in well-informed circles" that Mr. Ormsby-Gore's statement was "given...
Roumania's weekly ration of anti-Semitism...
...gross profit on sales, taking all departments of business together, was 23.4 percent of the volume of business. The ration of expenses to sales was 12.28 percent. In other words, it cost the Cooperative Society about twelve and a quarter cents, on the average, to sell each dollar's worth of goods. Compared with retail stores in the million dollars year class, this expense ratio is believed to be very favorable. It is the aim of the Cooperative Society to sell goods at the market price the same as other stores, no more and no less. The main difference...
Readers of the "Literary Review,"--they become more frequent every week,--are hebdominally favored with a "Guide" to a "balanced ration for weekedn reading." We approve of the scheme, in fact, adopted it ourself the day we recovered from an afternoon of Sarah Bernhardt by sitting under Billy Sunday in the evening, or vice versa, no matter. But why limit the choice to recent publications? Our own list for the weekend past, after the manner of the "Review," would look something like this...