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...Germany for military training during World War I, helped chase the Russians out of Finland in 1918. Five years later he turned up in Mexico, fought on the losing side of a revolution, fled to the U. S. Battle-hardened at 20, he became successively a mechanic in Galveston, Tex., a chauffeur in Manhattan. Last December he smelled powder again, quit his job, went off to fight the Russians in Finland once more. Last week he was back with a story...
...there would be a market for sale and charter of their vessels as goods piled up on U. S. wharves. Still in the free port of Staten Island awaiting shipment to France were many of the 5,000 trucks ordered for the French Army. In the Texas ports of Galveston and Houston, warehouses bulged with thousands of bales of cotton long overdue at their European destination. Two months ago New York elevators were so choked with wheat that rail shipments had to be halted. Imports were similarly delayed...
...which like a dethroned monarch of agriculture forever conspired to rule again grew in its inexhaustible luxuriance-over the eight States south of the Ohio and the James; east of the shallow, wandering Brazos that flows from dusty New Mexico to the grey waters of the Gulf near Galveston Bay. In little patches hanging on the hillsides of Tennessee; in the red soil of Georgia; in big plantations along the Black Warrior and Coosa in Alabama, in poverty-stricken tenant farms and rundown sharecropping holdings, in syndicate-owned plantations bigger than collective farms, in 25,000,000 acres...
Trouncing big Standard Oil of New Jersey, Socony-Vacuum and three smaller companies with tanker fleets was the task taken on by National Maritime Union's tough, rock-fisted President Joe Curran. From Galveston to Portland his pickets patrolled the docks, laid up 75 slick, oil-toting tubs. Purpose: to persuade the lines to increase wages and prefer union men for jobs. Because 14 other companies were willing to dicker, their tankers continued to run without hindrance and the Atlantic Seaboard faced no oil shortage comparable to that threatening in coal (see p. 18). For most people, a surprising...
Then the Narcotics division announced some facts: Tom Pendergast's town traded in $12,000,000 worth of narcotics a year, served a vast territory. Most surprising fact: that healthy, husky Texas is a dopey State. Rated next to Kansas City as consuming centres were Galveston, Fort Worth, Dallas, Houston. Nor is this because of the Mexican population. Texas has oil. Prostitutes follow oil workers. Dope goes with prostitutes. Most Texas addicts are Anglo-Saxons, some are children...