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...seed potatoes; 43% off for 1,500,000 gal. a year of cream; half off on halibut; $2.50 instead of $5 per gallon on whiskey aged four years or more in the wood; half off on lumber with an annual limitation to 250,000,000 board feet on Douglas fir and western hemlock. In addition, the U. S. agreed to keep on the free list wood pulp and newsprint, crude asbestos, wood shingles (with limitations), lobsters, telegraph poles, undressed mink, beaver, muskrat and wolf skins, nickel ore, cobalt and quahaugs. Other items on which the U. S. duty was reduced...
...weeks later the Albers (FlapJack) Milling Co. plant made a roaring fire with a $300,000 loss. Seattle's ball park spiraled in smoke. Executives and their underlings opened the morning mail to find printed notes threatening fires. Factory after factory burned. Lumber yards, stacked high with fir and cedar from Washington's forests, became kindling pyres. A boxcar, filled with new Buicks specially built with right-hand drives for shipment to the Orient, became a pile of ashes and twisted steel. Seattle's nominally low 60? per capita fire loss zoomed to $1.40 in four years...
...Tejeda turned, sprinted for cover. The 25 turned with him. sprinted into the line of fire. Tejeda dodged and twisted from door to pillar. The 25 dodged and twisted with him. Bang, bang! Nicks suddenly appeared in the plaster wall beside Tejeda who ducked back. Shouting, running, stopping and fir ing, the 100 "regulars" came on in fierce pursuit. But always a dodging, criss crossing screen of men ran between them and Tejeda. The town of Nicolas Romero was suddenly the field for a sinister football game. Tejeda's life was the ball and he carried...
Greta Garbo had a six-foot fir sent from Sweden for her Christmas tree...
...Senate. He is young (43), born in Milwaukee, but not to wealth. He is not only handsome, bright-eyed, good-humored, but since his college days at the University of Minnesota and Harvard Law School has made his way by personal brilliance. He joined the conservative Manhattan law fir in of Cravath & Henderson in 1916 and entered private banking because as a lawyer he helped Seligman & Co. with railroad reorganizations (Pere Marquette, Frisco, International Great Northern, M. K. T.). Yet, no stuffed-shirt, he leans toward the liberal side on economic questions, is familiar with (and discourses ably...