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...corporation during the fiscal year which is taxable to the stockholders as such, is estimated to exceed $20,000. A serious situation has thus been created because of the relatively small amount of cash in possession of the corporation. This shortage . . . is due to prudent anticipation of raw material requirements, and while this anticipation, coupled with temporary stoppage of shipments due to automobile strikes, has resulted in a greatly increased inventory ... it has also resulted in the corporation being without cash funds either to pay a surtax or to pay a dividend in cash...
...average world price of sugar was1½?per Ib. In 1932 it was 10?, considerably below the cost of production. With tariffs and import quotas keeping the world market limited without any limit on the amount of sugar dumped in London, the price has remained depressed. Last week raw sugar at Cuban docks was quoted on Manhattan's Coffee & Sugar Exchange at 1.18? per Ib., with domestic contracts being made...
...Paramount and Fenway this week take place in the North Woods, the big outdoors, but this does not freshen them greatly. "Fifty Roads to Town", with Don Ameche and Ann Sothern, and "Silent Barriers", featuring Richard Arlen and Lilli Palmer, are the pictures; one is sophisticated adventure, the other raw meat. The first is strongly under the influence of "It Happened One Night", which was so good picture that its baleful shadow is still hanging over Hollywood...
Nobody denies that the French know how to cook. And when it comes to turning the raw material of life into a souffle of light literature, the French are there again. For U. S. readers with ticklish palates, books like The Scandals of Clochemerle will prove an agreeable morsel...
Hollywood seldom attempts social drama, especially when that drama has to do with the raw meat of contemporary mass action; there is no reason why this picture should have stumbled into the things it does. John Meade, tycoon extraordinary, plays with natural resources as he does with the little country lass's heart--he is frank in his admission that his work is swindle by business technique, and he scorns to replant forests he devastates. When he shifts from lumber to wheat, he runs against a dust storm, the governor of the state who reminds him of his responsibility...