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...sales of the Indian mills. In 1933 the Indian Government increased the tariff on foreign cotton goods, which was mostly Japanese, to 5%, set the duty on British cotton at 25%. It did not stop the flood and Japan struck sharply back. Her spinners voted to buy no more raw cotton from India Last winter British, Indian and Japanese cotton manufacturers met in Simla, patched up a peace for India. A further cotton conference began in London on St. Valentine's Day. It failed to settle the question of Japanese exports to the world at large. Mr. Runciman...
...mystery will undoubtedly "make those French Johnnies sit back, take their hats off and scratch their heads," even despite your learned editorial note on how expert zoologists empty eggs with fine silver tubes and air pressure. For it happens that my brother* has always had a great fondness for raw eggs, and when he was a youngster my mother was more than once startled by discovering that a box apparently full of eggs was really half empty! But it would undoubtedly be infra-dig for Scotland Yard or the Surete Generale even to entertain such a simple explanation...
...slogan originated with a raw bus boy who, when Janssen asked him to summon the head waiter, shouted "Janssen wants to see you." To remind himself to reprimand the boy Janssen jotted the phrase in his notebook. Its catchiness appealed to him and he repeated it on 50 postcards, mailed them to his friends. Next night, he swears, all 50 appeared at his Hofbrau...
...sour milk and special "limed milk." There are eggs, fish, vegetables & fillers. For dessert Main Line dogs may have a Large Bone (5? ). Other prices vary with the market. The standard platter weighs 1 lb., ordinarily sells for 12? or 13? raw and 15? cooked. One of them usually lasts a Sealyham or spaniel two days but a Great Dane or setter wolfs several per day. Puppies and invalids, which need more food oftener, are served daily by the "Puppy Special." The new plant at Oakmont has been made ultra-sanitary, equipped with cutting, cooking, packing, snipping and reception rooms...
...chance of working their will against the overwhelming sentiment of Congress and country. Therefore, as if to wither them with one last blast and put the control bill over the Congressional hump, he flung out to the Press what the New York Times called "an armful of raw and bleeding figures." The figures were an unanalyzed summary of brokers' profits since 1927. Counsel Pecora knows how to give a sinister twist to any stated sum, particularly if it runs into nine or ten figures, and this time in blackest headlines he declared that New York Stock Exchange firms...