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...next twelve months, railway and port facilities in Canada will be humming at top capacity, and even then they will be pressed to keep up with the traffic. That traffic is wheat...
Frei's "journey of international understanding" was a first-class success. In Italy, he arranged for expanded trade and for technical assistance from Fiat, Marelli (electric motors) and Breda (railway equipment). In France, he picked up a $20 million line of credit, discussed access to French markets for finished and semifinished goods. "This would break all previous trade patterns imposed by France," said Frei. England agreed to consider sending its minister of overseas development to Chile to organize a plan for regional, Alianza-like development. West Germany discussed financial and technical aid for mineral studies in northern Chile...
Except for its saucy rows of opaque lemon awnings, the four-story building next to the Düsseldorf railway station might almost pass for a clinic. Attendants carry stacks of fresh linen through its quiet halls. Its pleasant central dining room keeps hospital hours: breakfast from 8 to 10, lunch at noon, dinner at 5. Its 228 tenants, each of whom is examined by city doctors at least twice a week, spend most of their time...
...controlling interest in 1946 by snapping up a 20% block of Ohio stock that the bigger Diamond Match Co. had been forced to surrender by federal order. From matches Simon turned to railroads, using Ohio Match money to buy a substantial block of stock in the Northern Pacific Railway...
Alabama's freshman Congressman William Dickinson, 39, a Democrat-turned-Republican, is an ex-footballer from Montgomery, a onetime state judge, and a former assistant vice president of the Southern Railway System. He likes to make a splash. Last week he splashed mud all over the House floor. But only Dickinson got dirty...