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The Author. In 1914, Llewelyn Powys went to Africa, where his brother had a farm, to avoid dying of consumption in England. He returned in 1920, published Ebony and Ivory, which won him instant recognition. Now he lives in New York.
2) Farmers. "To the farmers of the United States also we promise not patronage but such laws and such administration of the laws as will enable them to prosper in their own right. . . . They feel today, more severely perhaps than any others, the depressing effect of discriminatory taxation. Buying in...
During the War, European macaroni was practically unobtainable here, and the U. S. industry grew. By 1920 there were 450 producers with a production of about 450 million pounds, while our imports fell to only one million pounds. Meanwhile, per capita consumption here had risen slightly from 3.9 pounds to...
So large a proportion of the world's supply of coffee is raised in the Brazilian states of San Paulo and Santos that the recent revolution in that section has had an important effect on the world coffee market. Spot coffee in New York rose in July to 17.15...
"Pittsburgh Plus" is descriptive of a U. S. Steel Corporation price-fixing practice. The Corporation's policy is to sell plates, shapes and bars on a delivered basis, irrespective of the place of manufacture, and values them all as if they were manufactured at Pitts- burgh. This uniform valuation...