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...Foreign Commerce Department of the Chamber of Commerce of the U. S. last week presented an array of statistical comparisons. It showed that on the 1925 list of U. S. imports, crude rubber stood first. Raw silk, coffee, cane sugar were second, third, fourth. Rubber gained in bulk as well as in value. Its total value imported was $429,705,000, a gain over 1924 of 146.6%. Its tonnage increased only 20.9%. (1924's price averaged 24? a pound, 1925's nearly...
Yonder is Finis Garrett, the Democratic leader. He is brilliant but inclined to be erratic. Ogden Mills is just coming in. He is a Republican and comes from the silk stocking district of Manhattan, a Harvard man, with plenty of money, able, incisive, one of the best on the Ways and Means Committee. The man with the shock of white hair is Haugen, chairman of the Committee on Agriculture whose farm bill is raising such a rumpus. You see that smart young man who is going around and making so much of a party out of this? That is John...
Queen Paras (as she may now call herself) stepped upon the shore, friendly but shy. She wore a red and yellow dress and over it a cloak of dark blue silk. Her hair was tied in braids; she wore no bangles. One hundred gypsies met her at the pier; one hundred gypsies escorted her, with shouts and cymbals, to be crowned a queen in Manhattan...
...soon be added to it. King Haakon VII of Norway knew that the great polar dirigible Norge** ("Norway") would shortly set out to fly over an unexplored area exceeding one-fourth million square miles, the icecap of the world. (See AERONAUTICS.) At the stern of the Norge flies a silk Norwegian flag, the gift of King Haakon and Queen Maud (TIME, April 12, SCIENCE). Within the Norge's gondola are other Norwegian flags of stiffest canvas, securely sewed to stout weighted spikes. According to international convention all that is necessary for Norway to annex legally the unexplored north polar region...
...comedy. This one is perhaps less laughable than usual. It tells about a mobile and generally attractive stockbroker who fell in love with the fair daughter of his bitterest rival. Much of their wooing took place at a charity bazaar, in which most of the assembly had put on silk trousers and just gone Turkish...