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...trend in smoking from cigars to cigarets has hit the American Sumatra Tobacco Co.-producers of cigar wrappers-very hard. For four years, deficits have been piling up, and now amount to about $4,500,000. As a result, inventories have had to be liquidated and dividends on its preferred stock suspended. Finally, on June 1 next, a 7½% "gold" loan matures. So hopeless was the outlook for funding this issue that the Company was placed in the hands of receivers...
...Failing that, rubber plantations must be obtained in non-British territories. This, in fact, has in recent years been done. According to U. S. statistics, approximately $32,000,000 is invested in U. S. rubber plantations in the Far East, most of the large ones being located in Sumatra. The most extensive plantation is owned by the U. S. Rubber Co., which owns three in Sumatra and several smaller ones on the Malay Peninsula...
...world where there are already established observatories; too frequently eclipses take place in inaccessible places, where astronomical equipment has to be taken at great cost which may be entirely in vain if the day is cloudy. The next four total eclipses, for example, will take place in Sumatra, in Scandinavia, in Malacca, in Patagonia. But in this case, the observatories of Toronto, Cornell, Vassar, Yale and Wesleyan Universities will be in the path of the total eclipse while several others, such as the Yerkes and the Harvard observatories, will be in the region of partial but not of complete eclipse...
President C. B. Seger in his statement to stockholders stressed the satisfactory progress made by the company's rubber plantations in Sumatra and Malay Peninsula. The plantations enable U. S. Rubber to obtain cheap and uniformly pure crude rubber. Last year they earned a profit. But the profits and the accumulated surplus of the plantation companies are not included in the consolidated statement of the U. S. Rubber...
...chief concern of the Dutch Admiralty is the defense of the Dutch East Indies. The Netherlands owns a colonial empire east of Singapore that includes the huge islands of Java, Sumatra and portions of Borneo. The area of the empire is 733,642 square miles, the population 50,000,000 and in 1921 its total import and export trade amounted to roughly 2,500,000,000 guilders...