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Last week Sears, Roebuck & Co. bought a seat on the New York Commodity Exchange. The No. 1 U. S. mail order house had no intention of speculating in rubber, silk, copper, hides, tin, lead, zinc, gasoline or crude oil. Indeed, the prime reason for buying the seat was to make it easier not to speculate in such commodities. According to Sears's Robert E. Wood, the seat was acquired to facilitate hedging operations...
...watched its concrete top cracked away, the plain coffin exhumed. Because there was no longer any danger of spreading Bacillus leprae, no need existed to sterilize Father Damien's mouldering bones and dust, according to President Frederick E. Trotter of the Honolulu Board of Health. In an undersized, zinc-lined coffin of koa wood, the remains were flown back to Honolulu, where they lay in state. Aboard the U. S. Army transport Republic, the coffin was to be carried to Cristobal, C. Z., transferred to the Belgian schoolship Mercator, taken on to Antwerp. In Belgium the Fathers...
...Government, switched to its present business of compiling mailing lists. Thus smart Mr. Williams turned Boyd's old enemy-the U. S. Post Office-into its indispensable servant. The company has on file some 10,000,000 U. S. names. Trade lists start with Abattoirs, end with Zinc. There are about 10,000 different mailing lists, about 50,000 customers. In 1929 Boyd's listed 620,000 persons rated at $50,000 or more. Last week there were 495,000 such persons on Boyd's lists. Boyd's draws the line at lists of bald-headed...
...tariff, similar cuts on electric refrigerators, washing machines, radios and abolition of the duty on magazines.* Furthermore Canada promised to keep U. S. raw cotton on her free list. Duty free likewise will be soya beans, bristles, eggplant, artichokes, horseradish and okra, hop poles and railway ties, tourist literature, zinc dust, Mexican saddle trees. Duties will be lower on a multitude of off-season vegetables, on regalia and badges, on albumenized paper, peaviners, wire (single and several), pruning hooks, cantaloupes, dynamos, surgical dressings, sanitary napkins and abdominal supports...
Thompson's holdings were scattered from Cobalt Lake, Canada to Peru. They included Inspiration Mine in Arizona and Indian Motorcycle Co. He financed lead, zinc and coal mines, street railways, handled the sensational Midvale Steel financing during the War when the stock rose from 290 to 500. He refinanced American Woolen Co. and Tobacco Products Co., launched Cuban Cane Sugar Co., got control of Pierce Arrow Motor Car Co., organized Submarine Boat Corp. and the Wright-Martin Aeroplane Co. Fat, good-natured, bald, a tireless worker, a devoted family man, Thompson chewed tobacco, underpaid his employes...