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...deploying to stalk the seals, killing them with shotguns?is ably but too briefly photographed. Tragic is the situation of one squeaking white baby seal, stuck to a lump of ice; when his mother pauses to nose him off, both are shot. After the hunt, the sealers haul their "sculps" (seal skins) back across the ice. The jinker and his rival get left behind in a blizzard, the story sets in again...
...were asking for a 15% rate increase on all freight as an emergency measure to offset lost revenues and thereby avert wage cuts, defaults and receiverships, the carriers intimated they had no idea of using such wholesale authority, if granted, to an extreme. Many rates, particularly those on short-haul goods for which trucks compete, would not be changed. What the roads were really after was I. C. C. permission to adjust rates of their own choosing within a 15% range, thereby increasing their operating revenue by 10%. To avoid protracted arguments over individual rates, they consolidated their plan into...
...three sure ways to win at baccarat: 1) deliberate cheating by sleight of hand in drawing a card; 2) marked cards; and 3) a prepared deck introduced by a confederate croupier into the "shoe" from which cards are drawn. Before the War an Italian gang made a big haul at Monte Carlo with a prepared deck and got away. But the confederate croupier was nabbed and served a long, long Monaco jail sentence...
...native of Boonville, N. Y., has spent nearly every summer there on his family's farm and lately went back there to live Dark, long-faced, quiet, he is a good listener, his favorite occupation being to hear stories from farmers, canalmen, lumbermen. He has also written Rome Haul...
...Attorney General Mitchell brought suit last week to restrain the Elgin, Joliet, & Eastern ("Chicago Outer Belt Line") from transporting products of the U. S. Steel Corp. The commodities clause of the Interstate Commerce Act forbids a railroad to haul commodities manufactured by it or by its subsidiaries. Whether the reverse also holds?that a manufacturer may not own a railroad that hauls his freight? is the question, to determine which the Attorney General is bringing his suit. Should he win, U. S. Steel will be mightily embarrassed, for it will have to give up its control not only...