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...form of farm aid must go into the bill if tariff features were being added. He was brushed aside by a vote of 46-10-23. Lumber was voted (36-10-24) additional protection of $3 per 1,000 board feet. Copper was given a tariff of 46 a Ib. by a vote of 45-to-22. The Senate then proceeded...
...After 24 hours during which the railroad not only did not move 'its stranded cars but virtually ceased freight operations eastward over the line, the militia was called out. Ugliness and perhaps bloodshed were avoided by East St. Louis merchants and ex-service men who provided 200 Ib. of sausage meat and free truck transportation to Washington, Ind., thus shifting an unpleasant situation into the lap of a neighbor State...
...these bonds turned up in Stock holm where they had been used by Ivar Kreuger for a personal loan. 2) Many of International Match's so-called concessions were false. On the stand last week Fred Allen, large senior New York partner of Lee, Higginson & Co., looking 25 Ib. lighter in the past two months, testified that so far only the Turkish concession (made in 1930) and the Guatemalan have been found to be real...
...lobsters. To prevent the importation of oin. Canadian lobsters Congressmen White & Nelson would set 10½ in. as the minimum legal length for all lobsters entering the U. S. That Maine needs such a law is suggested by the fact that the price of lobsters dropped from 60? per Ib. three years ago to 25? last winter. It costs a Maine lobsterman 20? per Ib. to catch a lobster. Canada's industry is government-subsidized, and its lobsters enter the U. S. duty free. Though Canadian lobsters grow as large as Maine's, immature ones are caught under...
...bottom of the sea five or six miles from shore. In April and May they move shoreward to feed. In its old age a lobster may reach the length of 23-75 in, as did one caught off the New Jersey coast in 1897, weight 34 Ib. In his Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus (Rome, 1555), Olaus Magnus states that between the Orkneys and the Hebrides lived lobsters large enough to squeeze a swimmer to death...