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...self-contained economic unit. At the Ministry of Commerce in Paris last week, Premier Daladier, a former Colonial Minister himself, sat down with a handful of Cabinet Ministers and the Governors of all French colonies, protectorates and mandated territories to discuss cocoa, mahogany, wine, tea, petroleum, spices, cotton, wool, etc., arrange tentative quotas among the colonies, set up machinery for an official Colonial Conference in Paris, six months hence, after London...
...deaths, burning clothes supplied the deadly fumes. This he verified by setting a variety of fires in an asbestos-lined room, he reported last week in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry. Woolen and silk clothes, rugs and furnishings produce prussic acid and ammonia as well as carbon monoxide and dioxide. Burning wool also produces toxic hydrogen sulfide. Cotton, rayon, paper, wood and other cellulose produce poisonous concentrations of carbon monoxide and dioxide, and acetic acid which makes smoke acrid and causes coughing...
...Farm Board sold its last 8,000,000 lb., cotton contracts touched 9?a pound. Venerable Boston wool merchants compared their market to the Wartime boom as the old clip neared exhaustion and wool tops hit 78? a pound against the year's low of 54?. In New Orleans brewers jacked the price of beer $1 a barrel because of rising malt and hop prices...
...3/10? a pound compared to less than 2¾? in February. If his company can make an extra ½? a pound on its annual output of about one billion pounds it will make an extra $5,000,000 profit.* Rubber, sugar, silk, copper, silver, wheat, corn, coffee, meat, hides, wool, cotton, cocoa-each one in a long, long list of commodities last week brought just such startling dreams of profits to manufacturers, traders, producers, to states and to countries in all quarters of the globe...
...there were uneasy stirrings. At a crisp command the girls arose, marched out on the lawn. While teachers called the roll they watched flames writhe and shoot through "Four Corners." It soon burned to the ground and with it the belongings of 40 of the younger Walker girls-green wool and cotton uniforms, white crepe de chine evening dresses, riding habits. They had no place to sleep; nor did 80 other girls. For two days prior "Beaverbrook," a stately brick building that contained classrooms, offices, dining room, sleeping quarters, had been gutted by a brisk, suspiciously sudden fire. Most...