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...since his company is one of the biggest importers of gasoline. Senator Tydings of Maryland was also opposed. He said a tariff would cost the U. S. people "at least $980,000,000 a year." Senator Tydings probably also had in mind the fact that when an experimental shipment of Soviet oil was lately made to the U. S. it arrived in Maryland's Baltimore, that Baltimore may hope to become a big oil port...
Died. William Jay Robinson, 62, proprietor of the Stage Coach Inn at Locust Valley, L. L, oldtime newspaperman (Atlanta Constitution, Chicago Tribune) and Klondike miner, founder of the Optimists Club of America (membership 300,000); in Locust Valley. He took the first shipment of gold out of the Klondike, made a fortune, lost it in the panic of 1907, founded his club soon afterward...
...foreign traders have been agitating for years. The likin or tariff on goods shipped from one large town to another, will be abolished Dec. 31. Small in itself, red tape and the juggling of likin rates by provincial collections to allow for "squeeze" have held up and reduced the shipment of goods, have helped stifle the development of China's interior provinces.* Lest U. S. and other foreign exporters grow too exuberant, Finance Minister Soong announced at the same time that the government must have $40,000,000 (gold) more revenue annually, that the Chinese tariff would be raised...
...Bank of England into the Bank of France (TIME, Dec. i et ante) continued last week at quickened tempo, reached $1,750,000 daily. When $5,000,000 of virgin gold arrived in England from South Africa, the French snapped it up, contracted for another $5,000,000 shipment due this week. In London the price of gold was forced up to 855 1½d. per fine ounce,* the highest price since British currency went back onto a gold basis in 1925. In Paris the gold reserve of the Bank of France swelled to the largest total in history...
...Omniverous, the French even bought last week virtually the whole of a $1,850,000 bar gold shipment from South Africa, then on its way to London. *His table of estimates...