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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...largest government-owned and operated commercial enterprises is Inland Waterways Corp., a barge service on the Mississippi and tributaries which last year netted the U. S. a profit of $441,651. Reported Secretary Good: "Before long the Government can pass over the corporation's facilities to private capital for operation...
...Expenditure of $24,000,000 last year for levees, revetments and dredging in the Mississippi River advanced Flood Control so far that "the largest flood that has ever passed down the river without serious crevasses was held between the main river levees without any disastrous breaks." This year's expenditure...
Slim, aristocratic Louis Alexandré Taschereau, Premier of Quebec, and bluff, jovial George Howard Ferguson, Premier of Ontario, met in Montreal last week to talk about the price of paper. For Canada the occasion was vital. Of all Canadian industries, largest and most important is the manufacture of cheap, impermanent newsprint for U. S. dailies...
...Antwerp, largest diamond cutting centre of all, Belgian diamond magnates gathered to discuss the impossibility of finding work for 15,000 highly paid cutters, decided to suspend all operations from...
...votes will be counted on a preferential basis, first position counting three points, second, two and third, one. In voting for the other officers, members of the Senior Class will simply place a single cross beside the name of the man they wish to elect. The nominees with the largest number of votes will receive the positions...