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...from the truckers. The railroads will simply charge them a fee for handling the long-haul shipments that wear out truckers' equipment and boost their costs. For their part, the railroads will get some much-needed extra revenue. Says Erie's Traffic Vice President Harry W. Von Willer: "Trucks take only the kind of business they want. They skim off the cream. We can't live on milk. We want cream." The New York Central alone figures that piggybacking will boost its gross $80 million a year. To motorists, piggybacking is also good news; it should remove...
Three weeks ago, Ernie Bevin appealed to Stalin himself to let the wives go. It would be "very difficult," said Stalin, to reverse a decree of the Supreme Soviet. "It is clear," wrote the thoughtful Manchester Guardian, "that he [Good-willer Kuznetsov] thought it a very trivial matter. He could hardly be more mistaken. The truth is that to the great majority of Englishmen this means a much simpler test of the virtues and vices of the Soviet system than all the five-year plans and statistics which have come out of Russia...
...Manhattan, U.S. businessmen formed the China-America Council of Commerce and Industry, chairmanned by Thomas J. Watson, International Business Machines Corp. president and global good-willer already busy with ten other peace and international trade groups. The council of bigwigs is ready to supply China with everything from Pepsi-Cola to locomotives and Arrow collars. The C.A.C.C.I. plans to open an office in Chungking to facilitate two-way trade. This may well amount to a thumping total. In 1929, China imported only some $140,700,000 from the U.S., out of total imports of $820,000,000. With Germany...
...Town" was never much on the theatre. The nearest it got to the arts was choir singing. But the New England Repertory production of Willer's play brings one very close to Grover's Corners, N. H. The pipe-smoking stage manager seems to have found his old haunts under the sagging roof beams of the Joy Street Playhouse. Even the milkman who bustles across the stage seems to be making his rounds for the umpteenth time...