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...City of Chicago has at no time called at either Siberian or Chinese ports . . . This vessel, in the course of her last voyage, loaded a cargo of lumber at Otaru, Hokkaido, North Japan, for London and it may be that it was during her passage either to or from this port that the aeroplane sighted this vessel...
Parting Shot. This week, after 17 years on the FRB, Marriner Eccles was ready to hand in his resignation. He wanted to go back to run his family's Utah banks, sugar factories and lumber mills. As befits a departing prophet, Marriner Eccles left behind a book of revelations-his autobiography (Beckoning Frontiers; Alfred A. Knopf, New York, $5), published this week. His most interesting revelation concerned his own demotion. Never able to get Truman to tell him why he was moved out of the FRB chair, Eccles thinks it was because he (Eccles) wanted to clip the power...
...skinny ("I barely cast a shadow"), but he fell in love with Yale the minute he arrived. Compared to Hotchkiss, "it was like hitting Broadway after ten years in a lumber camp," and young Whitney was determined to make the most...
...Breath of Spring. In Buckroe Beach, Va., after a contractor quoted Milo Begor a price of $300 to remove a 65-by-15-ft. porch roof and pile the lumber near by, a big wind did it free...
...Siberian or Chinese ports. Many-perhaps the majority-flew the Panama flag. But there were also pictures of British-one incongruously named City of Chicago-Greek, Russian, French and Japanese ships in the telltale files. All had been snapped since the first of the year. Some had deck cargoes-lumber, steel. Others were laden with oil for the tanks of Red China. Some were shown coming back empty...