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...Mohawk and Hudson valleys the train swept and paused. At Utica, Herkimer, Ravenna, Kingston, Newburgh, West Point there were crowds, cheers, songs, handshakes, little girls, gladioli, more movies by Mrs. Coolidge. At Weehawken, Manhattan Transfer, Pennsylvania Junction only a few trainmen gazed on the special and its precious cargo. At midnight the President and Mrs. Coolidge arrived at a spick and span White House, tired, happy...
French editors have grown daily more apoplectic at the hardihood of Turkey in detaining under arrest in Constantinople one Lieutenant Desmons (TIME, Sept. 20 et ante) commander of the French steamer Lotus which collided some weeks ago with a Turkish cargo boat on the high seas...
...supply of freight bottoms has so disastrously exceeded the demand that freight rates are no higher than in 1913, whereas freight costs have nearly doubled. A pound of meat may be shipped 6,000 miles from Argentina to England for one British penny (2c). Last week 85 British cargo companies with a total capital of ?30,927,835 ($150,000,000) reported profits for last year of less than...
...Hamburg Amerika motorship Rhineland was plowing a cautious course along the jaundiced flood of the Yangtze-Kiang, below Hankow, China. In the Rhineland's hold lay tons and tons of starchy little white pellets, a heavy cargo of beans. There was a crunching jar and trillions of the beans spilled about or shivered in their places as the Rhineland collided with the Japanese S. S. Mitsuki Maru. Then quiet again, and a trickling of yellow river water in among the beans. Like the droplets that crawl into men's beards to soften them for shaving; like the droplets...
Grim with her phantom cargo of 24 decayed sailors' bodies, unredeemed since last September, the S-51 freighted them to decent Christian burial in respectable cemeteries. Fortnight ago the Navy failed in a big attempt to raise the sunken casket because of heavy seas arising (TIME, July 5), swore it would succeed next time...