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...time. Encouraged by tremendous enthusiasm, the actors had a tendency to a declamatory utterance and self-consciousness the moment the action became tense, which revealed every dramatic absurdity in the play. How could they help it?-There was tremendous melodrama of life, and There was an audience craving raw meat: They...
...Europe's opportunity to pay its debt to this country in goods. Imports into the United States during March amounted to $402,000,000. This is the highest figure since August, 1920, and reflects the current trade boom and its increased purchasing. Since imports are so largely raw materials, it also reflects heavy current manufacturing. Meanwhile our exports have continued to dwindle; they totaled only $341,000,000 in March, leaving an " unfavorable" trade balance of $60,000,000 against us. Not since August, 1914, has such an unfavorable trade balance occurred, and never before in the history...
...individuals rather than at the Sugar Exchange. The agitation in political circles was maintained with remarkable persistence. Mrs. Harding expressed her sympathy; Mayor Hylan in a characteristic proclamation called for a "sugarless Monday," and a general campaign of sugar saving; monstrous petitions were threatened. Meanwhile the price of raw sugar futures has again exhibited strength, although refiners have followed varying policies in fixing the price on refined sugar. Thus far the agitation against sugar prices has not had an important effect upon them. Indeed, it is obvious that most of the outcry has been raised for reasons purely political...
Many parties, first and last, are cited as responsible for the advance in sugar prices, including " the profiteers " (cf. remarks of Mayor Hylan), the Republican tariff (cf. remarks of various Democratic leaders), Mr. Hoover, the Department of Commerce, Cuban producers, the " monopoly" of sugar refiners, speculators in raw sugar on the Sugar Exchange and " supply and demand." The part in sugar's rise generally assumed to have been played by the Government has added no little heat and fury to the controversy, thereby obscuring more fundamental causes...
Meanwhile, prices for raw sugar futures have touched a new high record for this year, and the highest price since 1920, on lowered estimates for the current crop; Guma-Mejer, the Cuban authority, estimated it as low as 3,670,000 tons. Most refiners, including American Sugar Refining, Federal Sugar Refining, Arbuckle Bros., Revere, National, Warner and Pennsylvania, have not unnaturally raised their prices for refined sugar after the rise in the raw commodity...