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...ships in the last month have been returning from India with unused cargo space. Reason: Indian exporters have jacked their prices up 15% in the last six months, but OPA maintains a tight price ceiling on burlap in the U.S. (at the dock, it now costs $15 per bale above the ceiling...
...supporter of the Roosevelt foreign policy, Republican Robert Hale, 52, had to defend himself in the election against an article he wrote for Harper's Magazine in 1936 entitled: But I, Too, Hate Roosevelt* revived by toothy Democrat Louis J. Brann. Maine's voters liked Bale's defense: "I am probably the most outspoken advocate in Maine of President Roosevelt's foreign policies. Also, I guess I am the most outspoken critic of his domestic policies...
...collect a ton or so a day to the big brokers who trade 100,000 tons, all say there is no money in scrap at that price. The junkies would rather collect paper, or work in a factory. The classification yards are short of men to sort and bale it. The brokers blame Washington's unimaginativeness and red tape...
...passengers contributed a bale of magazines and books, a phonograph for the wounded. Every morning the women rolled bandages and dressings, at card tables lined up as a workbench...
...back of a truck in Belgium a bale of posters fell to the road. Passersby, picking them up, found they contained, in parallel German and English text, regulations for Occupied Britain. But the truck from which the posters fell was headed away from the invasion coast into paper-starved Germany...