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...import side, there were slight declines in the dollar-volume of foodstuffs, raw materials and semi-manufactures, but an increase in manufactures. The manufactures item indicated increased competition from abroad and illustrated that price-reductions were also the cause of shrinkage in dollar-volume of imports. Quantitatively, 1928 imports increased nearly 3% over 1927 and the total was record-breaking...
...speak at this bituminous coal conference, he did not expect Dr. Slosson "to make any serious contribution to the practical and technical problems" which engaged the attention of the Congress. So Dr. Slosson, learned journalist, made a brilliant survey of synthetic chemistry, in which soft coal is the great raw material...
...described "the greatest line of military weakness" of the U. S. as the line from Chesapeake Bay to Lake Erie. "Failure to hold that line would so divorce the manufacturing plants from the sources of raw material, would so separate those living in the Atlantic States from their food supplies as to virtually paralyze the nation...
...Little Louisiana Lottery. Then he ran into a garrulous bartender named H. H. Tammen and they bought a newspaper, the Denver Post, with which they fattened the gambler's wad and extended the bartender's ingenuity. They had a circus, too (Sells-Floto). But, for raw meat and dripping ballyhoo, the Denver Post was a circus in itself. The reputation of Mr. Bonfils was to use the hatchet, but not to bury...
...would have been permissible for sugarmen to frown, last week, at nearly every piece of news which concerned their industry. Profound is the depression in the sugar business. Raw sugar has fallen from 5.09? a pound in Jan., 1927, to 1.91? last fortnight, the lowest price on record. Over the same period, refined sugar has slipped from 6.36? a pound to 5.10? , last week's figure...