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...amply forecast. In adjoining columns of many a morning newssheet appeared parallel accounts 1) reporting the Administration's plans for raising prices and relaxing the anti-trust laws to prevent useless competition; 2) reporting that Secretary of the Interior Ickes, having opened ten sealed bids for 400,000 barrels of cement for Boulder Dam. found them all uniformly $1.29 a barrel, up 20? since two month? ago. Angered, Mr. Ickes demanded that the Federal Trade Commission investigate whether the companies had entered into illegal price-fixing agreements. Not inconsistent were the two Government actions, but evidence of the Government...
...Eagle (Paramount). If you care to pursue the misfortunes of a family of beer brewers during the years 1916 to 1933, you can do so by seeing this picture. One of old Otto Hoffman's sons is killed in the War. With the arrival of Prohibition, his best barrel-roller (Charles Bickford) turns 'legger. Hoffman (Jean Hersholt) patiently awaits the day when brewing will be legal again but by the time it arrives, he has lost most of his money and some of his good humor. When beer is finally legalized, gangsters shoot old Hoffman and it takes...
William Starling Sullivant Rodgers, 47, mining engineer, 17 years with Texas Co., was made its president. Ralph Clinton Holmes, former president, now chair-man of the board, wired Texas from Manhattan reducing the posted price of crude oil at East Texas wells from 50? to 10? a barrel, the same low reached nine months ago before the Governors of Oklahoma and Texas shut down the oil fields with militia. Reason for the latest cut: a new proration ruling by Texas increasing the allowable production of the East Texas pool from 400,000 to nearly...
...stored in the West India Docks' "Rum Quay" warehouses north of the Isle of Dogs, where the Thames River winds through the flat slums of East London. One night last week a small fire started in a timberyard near "Rum Quay," soon got into the rum. A barrel burst, shot a fan of blue-blazing rum into the air. Soon concussions rocked the warehouse and burning rum ran in flickering blue rivers into the Thames. Blue flame fingered halfway across the Thames. London's brass-hatted firemen came by fireboat and engine. As the rum burnt, its evaporated...
Unfortunately, the tradesmen of Boston took over the problem where the law-givers had ceased, handling it with approximately the same acumen. Near beer was sold to trusting customers, who believed they were actually quenching their alcoholic thirsts; a barrel of the beverage was, and is sold by the glass at a hundred per cent profit. While the tax imposed is high, the profits reaped by retailers and brewers are higher, and the people, willing to pay any sum at first, are bearing the burden...