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...Fifty wicket locks now maintain a nine-foot all-year channel down this historic stream, first traversed (1669) by Explorer La Salle, admired by Surveyor George Washington, developed by President James Monroe. Into its brown waters have been poured $150,000,000 to permit stumpy little tugs to haul 50 million tons of coal, iron, gravel and sand on steel barges back and forth each year...
Soon 1,000 Cologne craftsmen will find jobs in the first Ford manufacturing plant to be set up in Europe outside of the Fordson tractor plant at Cork, Ireland. Many a continental country has Ford assembly plants. These will now be supplied with parts from Cologne, a shorter haul than from Detroit...
Harrah Case. U. S. Citizen Charles J. Harrah built himself a narrow-gauge railroad to haul sand into Havana. In 1917 his tracks were torn up, apparently at the order of one Manuel de La Cruz, member of the Cuban congress. The prosecution quailed before the offender's position as a national legislator. Mr. Harrah valued his road at $700,000, sued also far loss of income. Both Mr. Harrah and the Cuban government have consented to arbitrate this case...
...ones to predict, but with this bump still on my head I have to be pretty careful about how much I think. Of course I'll get the winners right but I might miss up a point or so on one or two of the scores, so you better haul right out of those pools and wait until next week. By the way, I wish every one would stop writing me for the scores early in the week. I've got an agreement with most of the coaches not to give them out before Saturday so as not to discourage...
John Tinney McCutcheon, cartoonist for the patrioteering Chicago Tribune, drew a cartoon in which Uncle Sam, irate, directed the Senate investigation to haul a Big Navy Propagandist from under neath a table, where crouched another figure labelled Peace Propagandist. The caption said: "Drag...