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...midwestern farmer wants it badly so that he can pocket some of the freight now paid on his wheat between Minnesota and Liverpool. The alert eastern and midwestern city dweller wants it, for in another 25 years there will be some 40 million more people in the country to congest traffic and consume food. Routes. New York State has the makings of such a channel in its barge canal* connecting Lake Ontario (at Oswego) with the Hudson (above Albany). Partly because this canal has been a very expensive white elephant, partly because it would profit greatly from an increased volume...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: Inland Channels | 4/5/1926 | See Source »

...issue is clear. Allow the illiterate, with his low wage, his low standard of living, his tendency to congest in the alums, to enter unrestricted;--gorge the labor market, force hundreds of thousands out of work, prevent any permanent betterment in the laborer's status, further pauperism, lawlessness, revolution, curse the nation with ignorance, widen the chasm between wealth and poverty,--or, restrict! Allow this nation to face its own problems, protect its rights and liberties, establish justice from the laborer up, solve the problems for the true democracy, for ourselves and all nations, not the least for those nations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN WON BOTH DEBATES | 5/9/1914 | See Source »

...editorial in the Boston Advertiser says : "For instance, too much Spanish mackerel palls, gallons of toothsome terrapin congest spleens, and chicken liver en brochette in incessant doses have been known to discomfit the digestion of even a Harvard boy." The writer probably has dined at Memorial...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 1/27/1883 | See Source »

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