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...overwhelming majority of cases do not involve and are not intended to involve the delivery of the amount of raw sugar purported to be sold thereby. Such transactions are completed by matching ring settlements or payments of difference, and by clearing through defendant clearing associations (named in the suit) without delivery of the amounts stated in the contracts." The Government goes on to quote the percentages of contracts actually consummated by delivery as being .0018% in November, 1922; .0023% in December, 1922; and so on up to March, 1923, with .0010 percent...
That the sugar dealers are not alarmed by the Government's suit, which may be followed by a criminal action for conspiracy in restraint of trade, is shown by the fact that dealings in futures and trading went on as before and the price of both raw and refined sugar climbed to unprecedented heights. Cuban raw sugar went up to 6.25 cents a pound and refined to 9.50 and 9.85. Brokers freely predicted that retail sugar would soon cost housewives 12 cents a pound...
...rejoice in enormous stucco palaces-there is a pervasive flavor of butlers, Rolls-Royces and The Book of Etiquette about it all. A bathing revel occurs at Miami in which all the guests have taken the wise precaution of substituting swimming gear for the more usual undies. The subtitles suit the picture-they are, most of them, of the "When came the dawnlight" school...
...sense can usually conquer pure idealism. It is serious, emotional, dramatic, interesting. Perhaps it is too serious and too emotional--there is rather too much oratory, and the sentiment is a little too obvious. The author, like his hero, seems too much imbued with the spirit of romanticism to suit this twentieth century taste; but he does well in spite of his defects, and the acting carries the whole through to a happy conclusion...
...York, the insured disappeared on April 28, 1913. The automobile in which he was last seen was dredged up in the Delaware River at Philadelphia near a ferry landing, in December, 1917. Notice was then given to the insurer of his accidental death, and, when liability was denied, suit was brought. The court held that the time within which notice had to be given-in this case ten days- ran from the day the policy holder met with his accident...