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...spot wheat at 800 per bu., simultaneously sells it for future delivery two months hence, say, at 860. The 60 differential theoretically covers the handling and carrying charge during that period. If at delivery time spot wheat has fallen to 75¢, he is guarded against loss by his contract. Likewise if wheat rose in the interval he would not thereby profit on his contract...
Inspector Joseph Marcs of the local police came to examine the body. The pistol was still clutched in Wenzel Kokoschka's hand. As the inspector bent to turn the corpse over, rigor mortis caused the corpse's fingers to contract. Corpse Wenzel shot Inspector Joseph through the stomach...
Every year the Hearstpapers, largest consumers of newsprint in the world, use approximately 465,000 tons of white, green, pink and peach colored paper. Last year hard-hitting President Archibald Robertson Graustein of International Paper Co. (subsidiary of International Paper & Power Co.) got the contract to supply Hearst with newsprint for five years at $55.20 per ton. Later he fought-and bested-the premiers of Quebec and Ontario when they tried to up the price to $60 (TIME, Dec. 9 et seq.). But the position of a U. S. paper company in Canada is not an easy one. More- over...
...which interested him more than the work for which he was paid. Giving recitals for friends in his private theatre and singing every Sunday in the little Catholic church in Los Angeles to which he goes with his family, were not enough. When he made his last contract with M-G-M he stipulated that a certain amount of his time should be his own so that he could make concert tours. Several years ago he tried opera with a Berlin company. It is not likely that Novarro's ambition to become an opera star will ever be realized...
Tucked away in the detailed, careful, 133-page report of Diamond Match Co. for 1929 is the statement: "Your company's 10-year agency contract with the Swedish Match Co. expires December 31, 1930." No surprise was this statement for in December 1928, Ivar Kreuger's $350,000,000 Swedish Match Trust served formal notice upon Diamond that the agreement would not be extended. Yet the approach of the actual termination has made more vivid the question of who will soon be supplying the U. S. with strike-on-the-box matches.* Diamond has made a few, hints...