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...Pins and Nedles" would still be a collection of union drama-clubbers on a spree without the brilliance of Harold Rome, who wrote the lyrics and music, and Joseph Schrank, the man behind the sketches. A few of the tunes, especially "I've Got the Nerve to Be in Love," are hell-bent for the Hit Parade...
...Copper, fresh from a June sales spree 450% ahead of March, sat on an export inventory which had backed up when France was put out of the war. By last week, it was clear that June's sales would not look so impressive when averaged with a couple of "correctional" months...
...squirrel spree forgotten, sugar was back at its humdrum ways: an industry of chronic depression, divided into a number of tough and coony political pressure groups. The U. S. consumes about 6,750,000 tons of sugar a year. The big cane importers and refiners are equipped to serve a market for 8,000,000 tons. Besides this, the relatively high-cost beet operators of the Mountain States, California and Michigan, can turn out 2,000,000 tons. Under a free economy, beet sugar would not get a smell of the domestic market until demand broke all records and exceeded...
Main case history in Western Hemisphere rubber planting is that of Henry Ford. In 1922, the British Government helped Malayan and Ceylon producers go on an oldtime monopolistic spree that sent the price of rubber (in good years between 15?^ and 20?^) skyrocketing to over $1.20 in 1925. To help break the monopoly, Ford, in 1927, got himself two concessions in Brazil. On some 2,000,000 lush jungle acres, he settled 2,000 workers and their families...
...issues) floated by Latin America during the heyday of gold-plated foreign bondjobbing. After seven years of Good Neighbor talk, some of these cats & dogs are still selling for one and two cents on the dollar. This debris of the last spree is the first fact to be explained away by all advocates of new credits...