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...meat and grocery bills. Operations between producer and consumer by the much-maligned Middle-Man would, experts explained, serve as a buffer between farm prices and store prices. Illustration: The corn duty raise of 10¢ per bushel would affect corn products (flakes, syrup, oil, etc.) by only a fraction of ordinary market fluctuations in corn, which sometimes are as much as 50¢ per bushel in a season without altering retail prices...
...audience recruited from the immediate neighborhood. At least it will have an equal advantage with the affirmative, with a feminine speaker handling the rebuttal. This favor shown to hostesses shows a charming disregard of what experience has taught about the argumentative powers of women. The Harvard half, or fraction, of the impending debate has proved its searage, if nothing more, by putting itself in the place where there is a possibility, at least, of hearing the ladies protest too much...
...their armaments. The U. S., Great Britain, Russia, France, Italy, Japan, for example, might cut their armaments in half. Such lesser lands as Chile, Siam, Belgium might reduce theirs by onequarter. All states in a given category such as "Great Powers" would reduce their armaments by the same fraction. The strengths of the Powers relative to each other would then be exactly the same as before the scrapping took place. The advantage to the taxpayers concerned would lie in saving the operating and replacement cost of the scrapped ships...
Attorney General Sargent, having served four years in the Cabinet of Calvin Coolidge, served one day and a fraction in the Cabinet of Herbert Hoover?until William DeWitt Mitchell was confirmed and sworn in. It was under Herbert Hoover that Mr. Sargent performed his last official act. That act was the signing of a parole releasing Col. Thomas Woodnutt Miller, onetime (1921-25) Alien Property Custodian, from Atlanta Penitentiary...
Food & Drink. Cocoa laymen think of cocoa chiefly as a beverage, imagine that the cocoa business might be expressed largely in terms of cups consumed. To the cocoa trader, however, drinking-cocoa (which he calls cocoa powder) is only a fraction of the industry's products. To him cocoa and chocolate are identical, both proceeding from the same cocoa bean; the entire chocolate-bar business is also a portion of the cocoa industry. The value of the cakes of chocolate made in a year is about three times the value of the cups of cocoa. The bean was originally...