Word: overstocks
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Whatever the count, it was evident at week's end that Curran & Co. could make a damaging cut in the vital flow of iron ore, coal and limestone to U.S. producers who must overstock before the Lakes freeze. The 70 ships manned by members of the A.F.L.'s Seafarer's International Union sailed as usual-despite one furious fist fight with N.M.U. picketers. But more & more freighters owned by the 24 operators with whom neither the N.M.U. nor the S.I.U. have contracts were tied up in sympathy strikes by their crews as they came to port. This...
...whole the number is about up to the ordinary standard of the Advocate and English 22. Conventionality, triteness, and an overstock of summer girls and others are the Advocate's great faults. Much that is worth preservation finds itself into the paper, however, and considerable ability is shown in some of the work published...