Word: spicing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crop of Lampong was far below normal. This year's crop, not yet delivered, is only about 15,000 tons. Spice traders (pepper is the most important of their 108 spices), trading in spot pepper and futures, are short when the time of delivery arrives. They must get pepper at any price to fulfill contracts. They must draw from the surplus Alleppy and Tellicherry in India and in England, and pay dearly. Prices rise. From a normal price of 12?-a pound, pepper quotations have risen to 43?. Brokers prophesied last week that a high of 40? would...
George Huntington Hartford, a "down-easter" born at Augusta, Me., went to Manhattan before the Civil War and there operated a modest hide and leather business from his store on Vesey street. A neighboring store keeper, one Gilman from Bridgeport, Conn., was in the spice and tea business, and in 1859 the first Hartford went to work for Gilman as store manager. Gilman soon withdrew from the business. He had a peculiarity that doubtless was most trying to Hartford. He feared death so terribly that he would endure near him no mirrors in which he might note the shriveling...
Under Hartford's management the spice and tea business prospered and in 1864 he organized it as the Great American Tea Co. The idea of neighborhood stores came to him. Promptly he opened such stores in scattered parts of New York and Brooklyn and by the end of the Civil War he had several doing well...
Heywood Broun's comment on Terry of the Dean's office, reprinted Saturday, focuses attention on that curious and fascinating group of human beings known as "characters", and doubtless calls forth sighs from the older alumni, who deplore the passing of the men that once gave a spice of variety to Harvard life. Long years have passed since John the Orangeman and his donkey-cart trundled through Cambridge, and the original Poco visited dormitories with a load of old clothes over his arm. But the extinction of the individual does not mean the extinction of the species; and there...
...EARLY WORM-Robert Benchley and Gluyas Williams-Holt ($2). The spice of Life...