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...force the Italian occupation." Mussolini ordered the report printed in his official Giornale d'ltalia. There was consternation in Whitehall. But Whitehall's new vigilance did not uncover Costantini himself, who stayed on in the embassy, unsuspected, performing his tasks for another year before retiring to the lumber business...
...nonpolitical council, whose corporate members range from huge General Motors to small Insular Lumber Co., called for an increased flow of private U.S. capital abroad, more lending authority for the Government's Export-Import Bank. It also put itself squarely on the side of free trade in the coming congressional battle by protectionists to end President Eisenhower's tariff-cutting powers, which are up for renewal next June 30. Rather than revoke the powers, said the council, Congress should extend them "with adequate authority to safeguard vital interests of domestic American industries in line with the national interest...
Most trunk lines will ask for increases on all but about 30 of 256 commodities. Coal will probably get hit, and the Western roads want higher rates for their eastward shipments of farm goods, lumber and lumber products. Even the 25 Class I Southern roads, which have traditionally rebelled against stiff rate increases for fear of losing business to trucks, plan to join in the request, even though they may not seek boosts for pulpwood, tobacco, alcoholic drinks. Finally, all the rails are expected to petition for higher charges for loading and unloading export-import freight, and for permission...
Empty Words. In Dallas, burglars broke into the Lee Slaughter Lumber Co., failed to heed a sign reading "This safe is not locked," worked hard to force the safe open, found nothing but papers...
PACIFIC NORTHWEST is battling worst economic decline in decade. Lumber sales and prices are off from last year, fishing industry is smarting from Japanese competition and lower U.S. consumption, and payroll at Boeing, area's biggest employer, is being trimmed. Washington State unemployment is up 43% from last year. Fighting back, Washington, Oregon governors are forming development commissions to attract new business to depressed area...