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...went to Philadelphia, sent Flint Rhem to the pitcher's mound. A few days before in Manhattan, Pitcher Rhem, scheduled to pitch against Brooklyn, had disappeared. Said he when found: "Bandits kidnaped me. They were gamblers, betting on Brooklyn. They pointed their guns at me and made me drink raw liquor for two days. It was awful!" Recovered from his ordeal, Rhem held Philadelphia to a total of seven hits while his teammates scored seven runs in the seventh inning, won the first game of a double-header 9-3. St. Louis lost the second game, 4-3, but held...
They warned that a tariff on raw materials and foodstuffs would certainly antagonize South America, might provoke reprisals against the enormous British interests there-for example most of Argentina's railways are British...
...perform a little drama on the stage intended to show the right and wrong way to do business. Classic Marchand example of commercial wrongheadedness is the case of Wrigley's chewing-gum when first introduced into England. Britons would not chew until the word gum?which signified nothing but raw rubber?was changed to "sweet...
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...
...cricket team of Burnley, England: a game from Raw Tenstall, 222 to 116, in the course of which Bowler Joseph Boon twice performed "the hat trick...