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Major suggestions made by Mr. Andrews are the establishment of a great rice market in Bangkok, the reconstruction of the port to accomodate large ships, the building of inland highways for truck transportation, and the expansion of cooperative societies to assist farmers in producing and marketing their crops and to assist in credit arrangements...
...Somervell of the Army Engineers arrived in Florida to begin work. Then for the first time Florida really woke up to what was going to happen. The canal would take route 13-6: Beginning at the mouth of the St. Johns on the Atlantic it would follow that river inland to Jacksonville and south 64 miles to Palatka at the head of navigation. A few miles south of Palatka, the waterway would turn westward along the Ocklawaha, a St. Johns tributary twistier than the famed Meander. From this stream near Ocala the canal would cut west across dry land...
...Inland Steel made $9,417,000 in 1935 as against $3,729,000 in 1934. This profit did not include the first nine months' earnings of Joseph T. Ryerson & Son, Inc., which would have added $691,000 to Inland's total. The Ryerson company was acquired last September. Inland, ably managed by Chicago's Block family, has rivaled National as a good earner in bad times...
Lieut. Mitchell, after a year on the Shanghai-Peiping run. was sent inland to develop the Chungking-Chengtu route. Diary notes, written on back of weather reports, describe a primitive area where transportation has jumped from sedan chairs and wheelbarrows to airplanes. His passengers were Chinese merchants and military men, women going for operations, an American explorer aiming toward Tibetan Mountains, a German doctor, a U. S. Congressman hunter, a reclamation engineer, a woman archeologist, a Chinese envoy of British government carrying 110 Ib. of silver to Lhasa...
...Inland Steel ranks next to National as a Depression earner. Its nine-month profit for 1935 came to $6,668,000, more than twice the earnings of the same 1934 period...