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...Boothbay harbor, supplies nearly half the total market. Because mud is a worm's fighting element, Stoddard worms are dropped in buckets of fresh salt water and kept swimming to prevent them from killing each other off before shipment. They are packed on layers of seaweed in small hampers, 100 worms to the hamper with five thrown in "to take care of the breakage." Specially cooled freight cars take three tons of worms into Manhattan every week. Though all other Maine worm dealers quit from October to April, smart Kenneth Stoddard works the year round, hopes "some...
Next day long-nosed Hamper Sibley, the Chamber's retiring president, got a little closer to the point. "It is obvious," he said, "that the broad question of employer-employe relationship is far from settled. It cannot be settled by force. It cannot be settled by attempting to throw legal safeguards around the rights of one of the groups concerned, but sharply limiting the rights of other groups. . . . Bargaining cannot be one-sided...
...running wild with Government money, and he advocated a $225,000 slash in the Department of Justice allotment for the coming year. Mr. Hoover appeared in person to defend these charges, and insisted that any cut in governmental appropriation would encourage a new crime wave, as well as seriously hamper the Department's work...
...comfortable but not wealthy Teetors, to whom Ralph was born 45 years ago in small Hagerstown, Ind., soon saw that the boy's blindness was not going to hamper him anymore than he could possibly help. Every day he ran to & from grade school where he got splendid marks. At the University of Pennsylvania he got his B. S. without difficulty. Because he was sensitive about his affliction and hated to accept help, he learned to do almost everything for himself...
...taken place which, whatever the actual truth of the matter may be, lend color to the belief that Japanese influence is being exerted to shape Chinese internal political developments and administrative arrangements. Anything which tends to create this belief can only do harm to the prestige of Japan and hamper the development, which we all desire, of the friendliest mutual relations between Japan and her neighbors and friends...