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...raw material of art is common property. So is the finished product. The process of making one into the other is the trade secret of artists, but on each book, picture, statue is the trade-mark of the maker's tools. The smoothly machined product of such novel-factories as Edna Ferber needs no watermark: consumers know it is standard brand, Grade B entertainment, an honest product sold for an honest price...
...three months old, cured it of rickets by lime injections in its spine. By the time the cheetah recovered, it had developed such a fondness for its owner that Woolworth Donahue brought it back to the U. S. When he told his friends that he fed it on raw ducks, Publisher Warner got the idea of teaching the cheetah to retrieve. After two days the cheetah fetched dead or wounded ducks on land or in the water, delivered them instead of eating them. When hunting pheasant, the cheetah is less useful than a pointer. Instead of standing still, it runs...
...worth of U. S. goods every year. Said Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Litvinoff who traveled from Moscow to Washington to conduct the negotiations that led up to recognition: "Enjoying the lowest foreign indebtedness in the world, the Soviet Union has the greatest capacity for absorbing the raw materials and products of other countries. . . . The U. S. could make use of this capacity to the extent of at least 60 or 70%." Prices advanced cheerfully in U. S. stock-markets. Hope was high. Commented Newsman Walter Duranty: "If one wants to estimate the 'horse trade,' I should...
Hunterdon County Courthouse, Flemington, N. J., Jan. 17-Bruno Richard Hauptmann, his nerves rubbed raw by a fortnight of accusation, sprang from his chair in the courtroom today and shouted "Liar!" at an agent of the United States Government...
...Cuba, noted in the trade as a patient holder, still had several hundred thousand tons of its quota left as late as September. The Cubans had begun to foresee that as soon as the quotas of other producers were exhausted, they would be in control of the U. S. raw sugar market until the 1935 quotas came into effect Jan. 1. Accordingly, in early October, they signed a three-month agreement with U. S. refiners. The agreement: 1) Cuban producers would sell 130,000 long tons of raw sugar to the refiners at 2.18½? per Ib. and as much...