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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...carefully concluded his waterways remarks by saying: "Nor does this development mean the crippling of our railways...
...dwelt on modernization of inland waterways as the best relief from high railroad rates: "By modernization, I mean increasing depths to a point where we can handle 10,000 tons in a line of barges pulled by a tug. This Administration has authorized the systematic undertaking of this modernization. Within a few years we will have completed the deepening of the Ohio up to Pittsburgh, the Missouri up to Kansas City, Omaha and beyond, the Mississippi to St. Paul and Minneapolis, the Illinois to Chicago...
...when a U. S. preacher says "vice," all of his listeners take him to mean sexual vice, or even more specifically fornication. There is little that a U. S. President or a State Governor or legislator can do about fornication except to avoid this sin himself. Indeed the only thing he can do is to make difficult the practice of the ancient profession of prostitution, which is a commercialized and variously well or badly organized form of fornication-usually regarded as the lowest form...
...never mean to hit below the belt, but I felt that roll-call on prostitution was a bit below. ... So, in all conscience . . . I withdrew...
...have been used for fermenting alcoholic drinks, they have long given character to cheese, now they may rival the lemon in making citric acid. Italy's high export tax on citrate products prompted the chemist to set the mold to work. Moving In. Industrialization of farm waste would mean a reshuffling of factory sites, said the scientists. The source of supply would be the base, plants using waste products would be constructed in rural districts with the additional advantage of cheaper, more