Word: two
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other two regents: Patriarch Miron Cristea of the Rumanian Orthodox Church, a venerable graybeard who barely survived a desperate illness last month; and sprightly Prince Nicholas of Rumania, a younger son of Dowager Queen Marie who minds his mother in matters of state but sometimes ignores her injunctions not to frequent night clubs...
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...
...estates. Most of these rich men hail from Sāo Paulo, "The State With a Billion Coffee Trees," which produces over half the world's crop. Most of them believe firmly in the efficacy of a combination in restraint of trade to keep prices high. For over two decades they have been perfecting a combination-really a gigantic, cooperative Coffee Trust-which the world has found hard to beat. By systematic hoarding of the Sāo Paulo crop in good years and judicious release of these hoardings in bad they have made each and every...
...America on the edge of Ross Sea which bites deeply towards the South Pole, was Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd and his large party. They were breaking out of their eight months' hibernation. Dog sledges had started making caches for way stations along his route to the Pole. His two planes had endured the winter well in their snow houses. Mechanics were going over them. The men were working hard but they had a holiday coming to them. On Oct. 25 they would pause to celebrate Commander Byrd's 41 st birthday...
Florence Trumbull Coolidge, two weeks a New Haven, Conn., housewife, contracted to write a magazine article on housekeeping...