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Coffee sellers were panicky, coffee buyers bearishly swell-chested. Plummetlike the price of coffee plunged-down 200 points for two days. Each point is 1/100?. What the howlers called "Dec-Santos!" (coffee from Santos, Brazil, for December delivery) fell, for example, one day from 19.25? to 17.25?, recovered somewhat, hit bottom the next day at 16.65?. Such a plunge, such an unsettling of coffee futures may spell eventually the loss of millions to coffee hoarding speculators, overloaded and waiting for a rise. Brazil, world's greatest coffee producer, is also the nation of most colossal coffee hoarding. Last week...
Radios by G.M. The vast preferred stock dividends of General Motors Corp. have, for many a moon, been paid by profits from an iceless refrigerator-Frigidaire. Last week there was talk that radio-making might someday swell the profits of , this world's-biggest-money-making corporation. For, last week, General Motors discussed with Radio Corp. plans for using some of its available manufacturing equipment to turn out sets under R. C. A. patents. Also, last week, General Motors picked up a small ($13,000,000) electrical-equipment concern, Northeast Electrical Co. of Rochester. Already, indeed, General Motors makes radios...
...they have committed an offense against Federal laws. If the report and recommendations of the probation officer convince the judge that the young offender can safely be released under a suspended sentence, and with strict rules of probation supervision, he is given this treatment instead of being sent to swell the overcrowded population of the Federal prisons and being stigmatized after leaving for perhaps one mistake, as a convict who has served time...
...reels of comic discomfiture. Valiant though protesting, he attempts to ride the Hottentot, connives darkly with the butler to get rid of the beast. But then he has to promise to ride Bountiful, Patsy Ruth's own horse. Panic-stricken he feeds the horse apples and water which swell it out of drawing. She discovers him, tears flow, the race comes. With tremendous will power he secretly buys the vicious Hottentot, dons the girl's colors, rides the race after having disabused Patsy Ruth's mind as to his identity. Of course he wins both the race...
...know whispered to friends that there isn't any "Dorothy Lane," or any J. L. S. Weekly, that the play had been entirely concocted by Elizabeth Hauptmann, pungent Socialist playwright (no relation to Playwright Gerhart [Sunken Bell] Hauptmann ), and that the last act would be etwas famos! ("swell...