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Three large Ford ships arrived at the mouth of the Tapajoy River in northern Brazil, last week, bearing engineers, physicians, mechanics, and material to develop Motor Man Henry Ford's rubber concessions at Para. The material was admitted without duty...
These are the gaming tables of lower Manhattan. The gamblers are U. S. traders. The stakes are the world's rich supplies of cotton and rubber, of cocoa and spices and coffee. Near Hanover Square are clustered Manhattan's famed commodity exchanges...
...president of the Toyo Muslin Co. (10,000 employes), of Bagnall & Hilles Co. Ltd. (distributor of General Electric Products in Japan), of the Tokyo Commercial Bank, of the Mitsubiki Company (importers of sugar, rubber, iron, steel), of a dozen lesser concerns...
...anti-rakish, antiseptic fun, and they achieved it. The heroine is a mid-western lass who hungers for romance and esthetics. In Venice she tumbles for an insolvent Frenchman whose family dates back to Charlemagne, who would innately prefer Santa Maria della Salute to the First Methodist. Her rubber-company father, distressed, arranges to remove the cultured Gaul to Ohio, hoping Daughter will be disillusioned by his Old World fragrance among robustuous U. S. odors. Chameleon Pierre turns Babbitt, nearly estranges the girl while ingratiating himself with her father, ultimately wins her with a recrudescence of Gallic passion when...
Their coal tar red wrecked the business of Levant farmers who had been raising madder plants for madder red. A similar misfortune befell the indigo plant cultivators of India. In New Zealand kauri gum diggers are becoming impoverished. Chile, once boastful of its natural nitrate monopoly is humble. Synthetic rubber is a fact, although heretofore more expensive than Malaya and Sumatra natural rubber...