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...would turn to rust if we built the Panama Canal." But like the Panama Canal, the Seaway would cut transportation costs. Proponents have argued, for example, that automobiles might move from Detroit to Los Angeles at a saving of $84.94 a ton. One friendly source-assuming total Seaway export-import traffic of 11,500,000 tons a year-estimates possible savings to shippers (on a list of various commodities) as high as $78,000,000 a year. Other estimates...
...heroes." That out of the way, Graves and young (25-year-old) Alan Hodge get to work on the newspaper files. They remind us that Alcock and Brown flew the Atlantic eight years before Lindbergh did; reveal the British press showing "widespread disagreement . . . about even so recent and important an event as the German reoccupation of the Rhineland: according to a large body of opinion it took place in March 1934, not 1936." On the evils of the Versailles Treaty and post-war diplomacy, the authors go hard on France, easy on Britain. Politically unclassifiable, Graves & Hodge are proLabor...
...examples of the need for such a job were particularly evident last week: the freezing of Axis assets (see below) and various import difficulties such as the coffee situation...
...these Latin floors with a U.S. ceiling, Brazilians would yell. It would have a bad effect on the milreis-likewise on the good-neighborly State Department. But if shipping space gets scarcer, the price of coffee may get too high even for State. In that case some sort of import control would be necessary...
...case of coffee was merely last week's example of the conflict in policy among the Government's various arms. Many another import commodity-copper, rubber, tin. tungsten-has felt the conflict too. New Dealers figured there was only one ultimate solution: a Government import monopoly, next step toward total economic...