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...right hand of His Majesty sat the new Prime Minister of France, spruce, go-getting André Pierre Gabriel Amédee Tardieu, and next to him the shaggy, great old man who started the idea of the Briand-Kellogg peace pact, Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, dozing with a deceptive air of inattention next to Minister of Marine Georges Leygues...
...Government is negotiating for $10,000,000 worth of Alaskan spruce and hemlock for newsprint manufacture, a stimulant to pulpsters' interest in that territory. The U. S. now annually imports about 100,000 tons of newsprint, duty free, from Germany, Finland, Sweden, Norway. This amount is, however, negligible in the annual consumption of newsprint in the U. S., estimated (1928) at 3,600,000 tons...
...leaped to foreign editorship of Le Temps, foremost French daily. In 1914 he entered the Chamber of Deputies under the most potent auspices possible?as the protege of "Tiger" Clémenceau. But at the trump of War he ducked out of politics, clattered off to the front as a spruce Captain of Chasseurs, got himself three-times wounded, was several times cited for bravery...
Arrived off the Hankow bund, spruce Marshal Chiang prudently debarked through a double file of his famed Wampoa cadets, the best antidote in China to assassination. Far into the night he studied maps, despatches, tried to gauge the strategy and numbers of the so-called "People's Army" which for several months has been advancing slowly southward along the railway from the region of Peiping (once Peking). Next day the president set off by armored train for the battle area, near Chengohow. Subsequent despatches reported quaintly that "the Nationalist forces are holding their own but are not advancing...
...Eggs (doz.) 8? 10? 10? Flaxseed (bush.) 40? 63? 56? Glassware (toilet) Free 50% 82% Gloves 40-75% 60% 30% Grapefruit (lb.) 1? 1½? 1? Harness Leather Free 12½% 14% Hay (ton) $4 $4 $5 Hides Free 10% 10% Lemons (lb.) 2? 2? 2½? Logs (spruce, cedar) Free $1 Free Manganese Ore (lb.) 1? 1? Free Maple Sugar (lb.) 4? 7½? 9? Matches (box) 8? 20? 20? Milk (gal.) 2½? 5? 6½? Peanuts on Shelled (lb.) 4? 7? 4? Pig Iron (ton) 75? $1.12½ $1.50 Pork (lb.) ¾? 2½? 2½? Potatoes...