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...Washington last week to testify against the so-called Wheeler Anti-Basing Point Bill were the presidents of the two biggest steel companies in the U. S. Montana's Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler proposed to abolish by law the common industrial practice of quoting prices which include freight charges from a "basing" city regardless of whether the commodity is actually shipped the specified distance (TIME, March 23). U. S. Steel's William A. Irvin and Bethlehem's Eugene Grace spoke for the industry most bitterly opposed to any change in this system...
...natural object for New Deal reform, the basing point was thoroughly damned by the Federal Trade Commission in a special study in 1934. A special NRA report urged modifications so drastic that they would mean virtual abolition of the system. Montana's Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler is earnestly trying to end the basing point once & for all with a bill introduced last month...
...author are redolent of the woods, the swamps, and the plantation. Many chapters are titled with place-names, "Spaniard's Grave," "Millway Run," "The Copse," "The Ridge," "Sweetgum Spinney," "The Savannah," The hounds are catalogued, the author finding in the music of their names excuse for theft from Lyly, Burton, and Walt Whitman; "Bluebell and Burly, . . Old Drum, . . Rouster, . . Bugler, Fifer, Bounce, Nimble, Witchcraft, Warlock, and Wisdom. . . He told over their names, softly, for their names were autumnal melody ... Ringwood, Dashwood, Robin, Patrona, Pirate, Gadabout. . . Falstaff, Rockaby, Sweetheart, Tireless, Highlander, Pibroch, Chieftan, Crystal, Valkyrie, Beldame, Pickpocket, Tattler, Blackamoor, Dragoon, ... Tipster...
Whereupon, I back to the Tower to read again Burton's "Kasidah" and much pleased by the thought...
...When it comes to individual "swing" men, why did you fail to mention other idols of the modern musician, such as the Dorsey Brothers, "Miff" Mole, "Red" Nichols, Vic Burton (drums), "Saxey" Mansfield (tenor sax), Joe Venuti (violin), Irving Brodsky (piano) and Dick McDonough (guitar...