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Vorys argued that since Europeans would spend at least $1 billion of the ECA money for U.S. agricultural products anyhow, his plan was simpler and certainly cheaper, for the U.S. would be able to unload some of CCC's vast surpluses of cotton, wheat, corn, dried eggs...
...Odium's willingness to unload Barnsdall mean that Sunray got the short end of the bargain? Sunray's Clarence Wright did not think so-and his reputation as a shrewd trader is almost as legendary as Odium's. Wright, a onetime ready-to-wear store owner in Oklahoma, City, has jockeyed Sunray through many ups & downs, including bankruptcy in 1931. He built it to one of the top U.S. oil companies, with assets of $136 million and profits of $15.6 million...
When Railroad Juggler Robert R. Young started to unload his Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad stock early this year, a Chicago trio began to buy up his holdings. By last week, Young was out and the trio had gobbled up 25% of Rock Island stock, one of the largest single holdings of any major railroad...
...rather than attempting to unload some of its population into more productive work elsewhere, the Occupation and the Austrian government are reconstructing its old magnificence for what can only be a minor role in the future. The thousands of refugees who field the city and the Russians in 1945 have returned from the Western zones...
...C.I.O. longshoremen had clamped around Honolulu's reef-ringed harbor last May (TIME, July 4) was beginning to rust through in several places. The trickle of cargo that had begun when the territorial government seized the docks seven weeks ago was growing to a stream. Freighters arrived and unloaded autos, Christmas tinsel, cattle feed, canned soup and nylons, left the same day with their holds crammed with bagged raw sugar and cases of pineapple. But when the pineapple-laden freighters hit the U.S. West Coast, their "hot" cargoes found a warm reception from Bridges' longshoremen. At The Dalles...