Word: sugar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tariff bill which the Senate Finance Republicans last week finished drafting. Best Democratic comment was by Representative McClintic of Oklahoma: "The working man may worry because his shoes will cost a dollar or two more but truffles for his paté de foie gras are on the free list. . . . His sugar bill goes up as does his milk bill and his meat bill but he can get Gobelin tapestries for his humble home duty free...
...those who thought the brutal, ancient German university custom of dueling had died there came a shock last week. In William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan. Frazier Hunt, onetime War correspondent & Mexican sugar planter, wrote that at Berlin "only the other day" he had witnessed two German students fight, not a Schlägermensur or sport duel, wherein undergraduates belabor one another with large, blunt broadswords, but a secret, illegal Säbelmensur, oldtime insult duel, with sharp sabres...
Synthetic Milk. China's Ernest Tso ground up fresh water-soaked soy beans and mixed the pulp with cane sugar, corn or rice starch, cod liver oil, calcium lactate, sodium chloride, cabbage water. This synthetic milk nourished Chinese infants as well as normal diet would have done...
...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 (cwt.) 50? 75? 75? Poultry, dead (lb.) 6? 8? 10? Shingles...
...Finance Committee last week decided: 1) To abandon Senator Smoot's sliding sugar tariff because of its resemblance to price-fixing; 2) To triple the house-proposed duty on waste wool; 3) To reduce the duty on automobiles from...