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Missouri hens laid certain eggs months and months ago. The eggs went to a packer in Omaha, Neb. who assembled crate after crate, culling eggs cracked in shipment. Frugally he separated the yolks and whites of the culls, loaded the yolks into 30-lb. cans, sold them to bakeries throughout the country...
...normal, necessary arms traffic, a publicity that would souse the greater pulps into war scares as liquor puts a drunkard into the gutter, is a ripe tomato in the face of common sense. Have private registration of arms at Geneva; have careful investigations of their use and shipment; but keep the results for intelligent deliberation by accredited representatives; don't ladle the intoxicant to a world press that's raking its lucre by constipating the unwashed...
Last year another Big Red, Commissar for Heavy Industry Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze, denounced "the fact that right now 450,000 carloads of manufactured goods are awaiting shipment in our warehouses for lack of rail transport!" Last week Pravda, careful not to blame anybody, grumbled: "The country can no longer allow backwardness in this vital link in our economic chain. The interests of Socialist construction, the interests of production and, last but not least, the interests of national defense demand a solution of the railroad problem this year and not later...
...Congress made up to Franklin Roosevelt for the powers of which the Supreme Court stripped him by declaring the oil control section of the Recovery Act unconstitutional (TIME. Jan. 14). Instead of his former "authorization" to forbid the shipment of hot oil in interstate commerce, he was directly ordered by law to confiscate any oil so shipped unless he found available supplies inadequate to meet demand...
...Chicago last week rumbled 102 freight cars carrying 3,000 tons of one of the most widely circulated catalogs on earth. One-third of the total issue of Sears, Roebuck & Co.'s Spring-Summer number, it was the biggest single shipment of printed matter the railroads had ever handled in two days...