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...Free ports, isolated free trade areas, were once prevalent in Europe, included such cities as Naples, Leghorn, Hamburg, Marseille. Today, sprinkled over the globe from Copenhagen to Curaçao, are some 40 free ports, walled off on the seaward side of customs barriers, where shippers can unload, store and tranship goods without red tape. Stapleton is well suited for such a purpose for there New York's late Mayor John F. Hylan spent some $30,000,000 to build a row of enormous piers which have failed to earn their upkeep. New York's present Mayor Fiorello...
...Jack Dempsey, Harold Lloyd and Billy the Kid. His first practical mining experience was on a steam shovel on a copper property at $4 per day. Even in high school, however, he was taking long shots on penny mining stocks with notable success. In 1921 he went East to unload a big stock of gasoline owned by a pinched oil company, stayed to form his own New York Stock Exchange firm two years later. About him he gathered a group of people mostly oldtime mining men, who also liked long shots. They promoted the centrifugal method of making cast iron...
...Havre, as an "entente cordiale gesture" to U. S. strikers, French dockworkers refused to unload the U. S. Line's S. S. Washington...
...Buffalo to Brooklyn. Not reflecting that dry ice evaporates to carbon dioxide gas again, that carbon dioxide in an unventilated room displaces oxygen without which no man can live, and that it is therefore a modern occupational hazard, two Brooklyn stevedores descended into the ship's hold to unload cases of cherries. They had time only to cry alarm before they dropped unconscious. Three other stevedores who went to the rescue also suffocated. All five were dead before they could be lifted to fresh...
...anxious to prevent any excuse for armed intervention, had their own patrols keeping order and rounding up drunks. There was peace also because the Attorney General's office in Washington found legal reasons to excuse the U. S. Marshal in Los Angeles for ignoring a court order to unload some 4,000 stems of bananas odorously rotting in the hold of S. S. California...