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...than it will generate). Last week an 85-year-old pro-Seaway lobbyist (for Minnesota) named J. Adam Bede, who was a Congressman in 1903-09, remarked: "Aw, I've heard all this before. ... I remember when the railroad people testified that the transcontinental rails would turn to rust if we built the Panama Canal." But like the Panama Canal, the Seaway would cut transportation costs. Proponents have argued, for example, that automobiles might move from Detroit to Los Angeles at a saving of $84.94 a ton. One friendly source-assuming total Seaway export-import traffic...
Coach Sid Cabot of the Crimson will use the following lineup: Bob Rust, Bill Higgins, Bill Waters, Tom Mountain, Marshall Holleb, Bob Green, and Ken Cuthbertson as backs, and Dick Simpson, Wallace dewitt, Jim Baisley, Johnny Harkness, Tom McMillen, Philip Markwart, Bill Dowery, and Cy Taylor as forwards...
...over, the production machine really got into high: 4,075,385 tons in 1919, 2,476,253 in 1920. Then the U. S. sat down again and remembered it was a landlubber. Hog Islanders and other ugly but effective freighters were tied up by the hundreds to rust, were sold or junked. By 1935 U. S. shipping began to scrape bottom again, a miserable 3,065,000 tons. Over 75% of the merchant fleet had sailed 15 of its 20-year effective life. By 1942 close to 92% of the ocean-going fleet built for World War I will...
With this baffling enemy sized up, intelligent defense could begin. The rust, a fungus which destroyed 300,000,000 bushels of wheat in North America in 1916, was proved to pass part of its life cycle on barberry bushes. So, within twelve years, some 18,500,000 of these bushes were destroyed in the U. S. alone. Wild currants were eradicated because they nourished a blister-fungus of U. S. white pine...
...morning he called to tell us that he had arrived at his plant to find two feet of water there, a building near by having been set ablaze during the night. . . . For a week he cleaned up the place, salvaged what stock he could and cleaned the rust off his machines; then he was back looking for business. We were glad to be able to give him some small jobs, and off he went quite happy, although the profit from our orders would not keep his family for one week. Two weeks later, in the great City fire raid...