Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Scotland Yard. Dakin Barrolles is an arch-thief who has his war-torn face plastically repaired in the image of the missing board chairman of the Bank of England. His resulting duplicity, which naturally extends into the bedroom of the banker's wife, prompts Sir Clive Heathcote of Scotland Yard to remark: "This is the greatest case the Yard has ever known!" The acting is bad. There are, however, some splendid sets-in a convent, a castle, London's Embassy Club-by a person named Yellenti, and an equally decorative heroine named Phoebe Foster...
...over the tobacco industry. Instead, two keen blades have been slashing away at it. Last week there were indications that firm hands had reached out, stopped one blade and grasped at the other. First and most destructive of the industry's two menaces has been the price cutting war between manufacturers, begun in April, 1928 when the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. reduced the price of Camels from the long established rate of $6.40 a 1,000 to $6. Quick to follow were Liggett & Myers with Chesterfields and Piedmonts, and the American Tobacco Co. with Lucky Strikes. The Lorillard...
...price presages a return to the strict 15? retail price (now two for 25? in most places, 23? in large chain systems), the second menace to the tobacco industry will have been removed. Although chain stores can afford to sell cigarets at no profit, or even a loss, the war has been expensive to smaller merchants. With cigarets costing them $6 per 1,000 the package price has been (allowing for discount) 10.58?. Selling at two for 25?, the package profit has been only 1.92?, while at two for 23? it has been .92?. Since the package price...
Greatest of the Cuban sugar companies is Cuba Cane Sugar Corp., formed early in the War, now controlling 829,500 acres. Yet despite its dominance, Cuba Cane suffered with all the other Cuban producers when their tremendous output was joined by new peacetime crops from Europe. For many a year Cuba Cane has stumbled on, always seeming on the verge of either collapse or sudden success. But coming on Jan. 1, 1930, is an obstacle no company in poor shape could meet-the maturity of $25,000,000 debentures. To surmount this obligation, a complete reorganization was planned, chief feature...
...third time in recent years St. Louis last week saw swollen balloons sway foolishly for the start of a James Gordon Bennett International Balloon Race. The race has occurred each year since 1906, except for the War period...