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...doubt fewer of those mammoth physical specimens from prairie farms report to Mr. Stagg as raw football candidates than in the days of Dink Stover, but the caustic critic points out that most of these demi-gods were muscle-bound, and that they dissipated in saloons and buggies, whereas the modern youth has only the ice cream parlor and the harmless Ford. Moreover, these huge giants are far too large to fit into the modern scheme of things, subway turnstiles, for example...
...order to prevent abuse of these products, it is necessary to exercise control of the production of raw opium in such a manner that there shall be no surplus available for non-medical and nonscientific purposes...
Colonel Ayres declared that, while European manufacturing competition would ultimately make itself felt here, there was little to be feared from this quarter in the near future; indeed, just now, the European industrial revival was creating an unusual demand for U.S. raw meterials and semi-finished products, as shown in our recently expanding exports...
...William S. Culbertson, of the U. S. Tariff Commission, proposed an international conference on the distribution of raw materials and the conservation of national resources.
Last year proved a profitable one for sugar producers, but not for refiners, who were hit hard in many instances by the wild fluctuations of raw sugar...