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...Lawrence River and the Welland Canal, a ship would be charged 6? for each gross registered ton, plus 42? for each short ton (2,000 Ibs.) of bulk cargo and 95? a ton for general cargo. A modern C-2 freighter carrying 4,000 tons of bulk cargo (ore, grain, pulpwood. scrap) and 4,000 tons of packaged merchandise would pay $5,955 for a one-way passage; a profitless trip in ballast would cost only $475 in tolls...
...ancient Roman times most labor-saving machines were human slaves, whose feelings about monotonous labor did not count. One of the few exceptions was a device that Pliny the Elder (23-79 A.D.) said was used to harvest grain on the great estates of Roman Gaul. It had, he said, a large frame fitted with teeth and carried on two wheels. When pushed through ripe wheat by a pair of oxen, the toothed frame tore the heads from the stalks and collected them...
...prize block, which has just been cleaned of its incrustations, shows the debated Gallic harvester. It has two wheels and a comb of teeth, just as Pliny said, and a box to catch the heads of grain. In front, carrying a shovel-like implement, is a laborer. The only important deviation from the Pliny version is that the motive power appears to be a mule instead of oxen...
...pods of 50 to 75 eggs apiece last summer, crawled up to 600 tiny, green, perfectly shaped grasshoppers per square yard (60 is a bad infestation) in fine, husky condition because of the mild winter and heavy rain. In a few weeks the hoppers, now no bigger than a grain of rice, will be big brown adults, devouring every green thing in sight and, as if on signal, taking off in cloudlike migratory flight to other fields...
...reply with feeble statements from faculty members urging the new schools, but every statement they made served only to strengthen the split in city beliefs. Opposition cries that the Board was trying to push measures through without telling the townspeople what they were doing probably held more than a grain of truth. Until the Board tries to gain general consent from the community before it proposes a plan--and incorporates in it the intelligent suggestions of the non-Board members--there will never be a new high school built in Mount Vernon...