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Apparently the owners were confident that they could break the strike. The union, counting on its own strength and anticipated sympathy strikes from longshoremen and ocean seamen, was equally sure of itself. But what worried plain citizens was that every available ship was needed to haul next winter's coal from the U.S. Each wasted day meant cold homes for next winter...
...traffic, six British ships this summer will dock at Churchill in ice-free August and September to pick up the wheat. The $13,263,000 port, with its $32,638,000 rail link to The Pas, Manitoba, was built to save the prairies 1,000 miles on the water haul of wheat to Europe. So far, the money has been largely a waste...
After searching the passengers and their 3,000 pieces of baggage, officials guessed the total haul would amount...
...talked their language, quoted their Bible, knew their crops and brought news to them from neighboring towns. In his notes and in his uncertain camera, he imprisoned a homely record that dealt with horses, people, auctions, and little girls who raise rabbits. When he had enough of a haul, he headed home to St. Louis and his desk at Joseph Pulitzer's Post-Dispatch...
...grit and by gumption, the British had got off to a head start on the South Atlantic haul. All they had last week was a temporary permit from Perón to fly into Argentina, six serviceable Lancastrians (carrying only 13 passengers on the long Atlantic hop), and a staff that was ex-R.A.F. But the only point-to-point competition for B.S.A.A.'s 55-hour, $705 service so far came from Pan American's $921 dogleg via New York...