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Dates: during 1930-1930
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President Hoover hoped for three things to maintain the lower tax rate: 1) a sudden increase in customs receipts; 2) $75,000,000 economies in his departments; 3) cash instead of security payments by foreign debtor nations to be applied to current expenditures...
...remarkable convalescence under President Harley L. Clarke was shown by its earning $7,125,000 in the first six months, a 40% gain. Saying that earnings for the current half year will be even greater, President Clarke assured stock-holders that the $4 dividend is safe...
...incandescent bulb. Filled with oxygen, the bulb contains a specially coated filament and crumpled sheets of thin aluminum foil. When the circuit is closed the filament lights, ignites the aluminum foil. Each bulb is used only once. The lamp can be plugged in on an ordinary 115-volt alternating current circuit, or can be used with batteries. The flash lasts only 1/100 sec. Being completely self-contained, offering no fire hazard, the flashlamp can be used where flashlight photographs have never been taken before, in trains, aircraft, rainstorms, under water...
Last week the antis banded together. Current figures were heartbreaking for many a Cuban sugarman. Since the first of the year, Cuban raw sugar has sold as low as $1.18, the worst price in its history. At present it is around $1.25 against production costs of between 1.5? and 1.66?. During the first half of the year. U. S. imports of sugar dropped 30% from 3,400,000 to 2,400,000. But imports from Cuba tumbled more than 50% from 2,200,000 to 1,000,000. And Cuban business, said reports last week, is at the lowest...
...Breath and I Am Only Human After All (Brunswick). Two of the month's best; bright moments in Manhattan's current Garrick Gaieties...