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...League of Nations is trying desultorily and ineffectively to restrict the growth of the particular poppy from which opium, morphine and heroin is manufactured and the manufacture of narcotics. Persia will not stop poppy culture because a large part of its population depends on the business and other nations are competing. China's imperfect government cannot control the production. And because China and Persia do practically nothing, Great Britain has difficulty in forcing India to restrict its poppy crops by 10% each year...
...mortem of the stock crash and the part the Federal Reserve played?or failed to play?to avert catastrophe. From the financiers who passed before his committee Senator Glass, arch enemy of stock speculation, got little support for his bills to penalize speculators with a new tax and to restrict the Federal Reserve's loan policy...
...again. Last month his widow realized handsomely on one of his characteristic plunges, an investment in the oil-cracking process of Inventor Carbon Petroleum Dubbs (TIME, Jan. 21). And last month the Supreme Court released Chicago packers from the consent decree of 1920 by which they were obliged to restrict themselves to the meat business despite competition in meats from the grocery chains. Swift & Co. last week availed itself of this release and announced a forthcoming line of canned fruits & vegetables. When the stockholders and potent directors of Armour & Co. met last week after the sudden, shocking death of President...
...with business 60% below normal Cubans are pinching their gasoline pennies, watching anxiously to see whether the national sugar industry on which everything depends will be "saved" by the Chadbourne plan now being negotiated in Berlin (TIME, Dec. 15 & 29). Plan: Cuba and all other leading sugar countries would restrict output, hope thus to raise the price of sugar (now scraping bottom at 1.4 cents...
...consumption was nearing stability on a basis that allowed for an annual increase of 10%. The 1930 increase will be abnormal and the difference upsets all plans for stability. Too much competition seems to have been at the root of many cases of overproduction. Small competitors cannot afford to restrict output, prefer to sell by price-cutting. International competition has also been a major difficulty. And mechanical improvements have upset many an industry. Chadbourne. That smart Lawyer Chadbourne realizes sugar is in the same bowl with many another industry was shown in a speech he delivered at last week...