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...thousands of Britons." Viscount D'Abernon's "arrangements" were: 1) an agreement with Argentina by which that country is to buy $38,880,000 worth of manufactured goods from Great Britain over a period of two years, and reciprocally Britain is to take an equal amount in raw material from Argentina; 2) an Anglo-Argentine floating credit of $77,760,000; 3) a British loan of $200,000,000 to the Argentine government for road building...
...goes to North America. Made from the fibrous stalk of a hemlock-like plant, jute has been for 100 years the prime material for gunny sacks, cordage and heavy wrappers. Trading on the new exchange will be conducted around posts for each of the commodities handled, which will include raw jute, burlap, hemp, sugar bags. President of the market is Rutger Bleeker, importer. To the Exchange Merchant Bleeker brings a knowledge of Eastern trade gained in 30 years of dealing in cocoa, jute, coffee, spices. In London the day the Exchange opened, he heard that 1,000,000 yards...
...Paulo crop in good years and judicious release of these hoardings in bad they have made each and every U. S. coffee-drinker spend about 50? more per year for his coffee than he otherwise would. The U. S. coffee-drinker spends about $2.20 for raw coffee imported, pays a goodly extra sum to have it roasted, ground, tinned...
...musician or actor. For his mother was the late great tragedienne Helena Modjeska, and he was her only son. He played in the green rooms of Europe while she enacted the rolling romantic tragedies of the 1860s and '70s. In 1876 personal tragedies forced her to go to raw California as a ranch developer. Almost forgotten became her husband, Gustav Modrzejewski,* in Poland. Her boy, then 15, went with her. The California ranch was a failure. Then there was opportunity to make her U.S. debut in Shakespeare, at San Francisco's Cali fornia Theatre. While she studied English...
...been obvious but seldom analyzed. Last week a journalist named Francis Wallace published some figures in The Saturday Evening Post. He showed that football's drawing power is about $50,000,000 a year, that some colleges make half a million out of their teams because they "get raw material, exploitation, and labor at slight cost. The schedule makers are planning five years ahead, signing contracts for attractive intersectional games, based no longer on natural rivalry or academic interest as has been the norm, but upon filling the stadium. Alumni, considering themselves stockholders, help to build the stadia, divert...