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...hardtack, chocolate, condensed milk, tinned stuffs and vegetable extracts to eat on a 38,000 mi. cruise around the world. They will stop at 50 points and report their condition, which, if ever it becomes ominous, will certainly do so on the 4,600-mi. stretch between Tasmania and Durban. Despatches did not state whether or not the Cornish mariners would indulge themselves at ports of call...
...Henry Ford's favorite pastimes is buying from and selling to himself. For some time Manufacturer Ford has been paying Railroad Operator Ford for motor material shipments over the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton R. R. At length, it seemed advisable to double-track this line from Flat Rock to Durban. Mich. To do this, about $1,181,000 was needed, and the master of the D. T. & I. accordingly desired to issue 5% bonds of the line for this amount...
...Interstate Commerce Commission on Aug. 1 granted authority to build 56 miles of new line for the D., T. & I. at a cost of about $7,500,000, as well as to issue first mortgage bonds to raise the funds. The new line will extend from Malinta, Ohio, to Durban, Mich., and will serve to shorten haulage distances over the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton line...
Despite the protests of the U. S. A. Labor Party, Laborites have consistently attended the political meetings of the Premier, General Right Honorable Jan Christian Smuts, to display every kind of hooliganism. In Durban, 5,000 people foregathered in the Town Hall, most of whom were determined to prevent him from speaking. When the Premier appeared rowdyism was let loose and after facing the multitude for ten minutes in a vain effort to start his speech, he was forced to leave...
...Durban Club he said: "It is humiliating to me and to all of us, that the Prime Minister of this great country may no longer address his fellow citizens. I have for months pointed to the danger; now you see it demonstrated before your eyes. The red flag has come to South Africa, free speech is denied us. Are we going to sit still under this treatment ? I am sure...