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...price of raw sugar (duty paid) to 3 3/10? a pound compared to less than 2¾? in February. If his company can make an extra ½? a pound on its annual output of about one billion pounds it will make an extra $5,000,000 profit.* Rubber, sugar, silk, copper, silver, wheat, corn, coffee, meat, hides, wool, cotton, cocoa-each one in a long, long list of commodities last week brought just such startling dreams of profits to manufacturers, traders, producers, to states and to countries in all quarters of the globe...
...Lubash, who lectures on urology at Flower Hospital Medical School, had a mercury-vapor quartz bulb made a little larger than a match head. This he attached to a copper wire covered by a silk-wound ureteral catheter and attachable to a high frequency apparatus. Last week was too early to show cures in his work, but he had reason to believe that healing light would work as well in a kidney as anywhere else...
...Author. Panteleimon Romanof (no kin to the Russian royal family) is known to some U. S. readers as author of the surprisingly light-hearted novel, Three Pairs of Silk Stockings. Of peasant origin, he was 33 at the Revolution. He began his literary career by writing humorous short stories, failed to get an audience till the Revolution gave him one. Famed in Russia for his easy, straightforward style, his knowledge of popular psychology, he is no rigid propagandist for "the Party'' but a shrewd observer of the Russian people...
...retaliatory tariffs, embargoes, import quotas, export subsidies, and exchange restrictions which "throttle business enterprise." First objective at London is a tariff truce against more rate uppings. After that, attempts will be made to weed out such quota restrictions as Austria puts on tires and shoes, Belgium on sugar and silk knit goods, Germany on lard and butter. Last week France, sensing a turn in the tide, planned to lift quota restrictions on U. S. radios, asparagus, apples and pears-a move strongly backed by the French wine interests with eyes fixed on the U. S. market after Repeal...
...Voss and his partner L. 0. Dearden, another victim of the crash, were not only dentists but dope smugglers. Working with a former Air Force Officer named Pleass they would take frequent trips from the continent by air, drop packages of dope attached to tiny silk parachutes from the plane windows at pre-arranged spots. According to this story they knew that they were to be arrested when the City of Liverpool landed. Dr. Voss set fire to the plane, cremating his partner and his niece, and jumped on the 1,000-to-1 chance that he might escape with...