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...Washington Bridge (Manhattan to Fort Lee. N. J.). It also owns and operates profitably the Holland Vehicular Tunnel, is now planning a second vehicular tube under the Hudson. It is building a 16- million-dollar inland terminal to be used as a receiving centre for all less-than-a-carload railroad freight. An efficient, businesslike, self-sustaining public agency, it is comparatively free from petty politics.-ED. Smart Farmer Sirs...
...sells to all comers, principally Canada and Japan. The latter has recently been a heavy buyer. Some of Director Schwartz's best efforts have been in raising the tone of the trade. Ten years ago it was not uncommon for a steel mill to receive a carload of scrap "top-dressed" with meaty chunks of good steel that concealed a load of bed steads, old fenders, tin cans, other metals and alloys which would ruin a batch of steel. One dealer foisted off a shipment of pipes filled with sand to increase the weight. All scrap is now graded...
Slavering, grunting, squealing, huge paunchy cornfed bellies swaying to their awkward steps, thousands of big pigs went to market last week. In Omaha, in Kansas City and in Chicago's noisome Packingtown they arrived by carload lots. Penned up in long alleys they rooted, grunted and jostled one another with muddy, clammy snouts. In between them marched the buyers for the great meat companies, poking their porky flanks and paunches with sticks and crying the cry of hogs, "Tsaa, tsaa, tsaa." With swift gestures and few words the buyers made their purchases. Four times a day the results were broadcast...
Each little country of Eastern Europe hates & fears the next. Last week Bishop Papp of Miskolcz in Hungary obtained a carload of potatoes, consigned them to starving persons of his faith in Ruthenia, which is part of Czechoslovakia, sat back and waited for Ruthenian thanks, which failed to arrive...
...leaves a blanket of gas which insulates against heat for so long a time as to make it as a whole nearly ten times as efficient as water-ice. Thus at present prices the CO 2 industry hopes to have its real opportunity to supplant water-ice in refrigerating carload lots. But whether it can make money at present prices is a question chemists ponder...