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...when 17-year-old John Stephen Wright stopped there with his father in 1832, and opened The Prairie Store to outfit pioneers who were heading west. Two years later young Wright had made a small fortune in real estate, was worth $200,000. At 20 he owned a warehouse, dock, 7,000 acres along the Illinois & Michigan Canal. He knew nothing about farming but he thought farmers ought to learn more about it. So in 1841 he started The Union Agriculturist and Western Prairie Farmer...
...News's Helen Kirkpatrick noted: "It is significant that districts where unofficial strikes (that is to say, strikes not organized by the trade unions) have cropped up happen to be districts where the Communist Party is most active. Communist agents have been found circulating in factories and among dock workers trying to stir up trouble...
...frequency in recent weeks. It was plain in the strike at the Vultee plant, which for twelve days stopped delivery of badly needed basic trainers to the Army Air Corps. It was plain in the formal, written protest (later swallowed) of President John G. Pew of Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. that his company could not answer charges of unfair labor practice, and at the same time go ahead with a $69,000,000 Navy building program. It was plain in the demand of Defense Commissioner Sidney Hillman that Henry Ford settle his differences with labor (before a final decision...
...from the air, like the British attack on the Italian Navy at Taranto. Big trouble is that the U. S. Navy has not nearly enough carriers (Britain has seven, Japan eleven). Last week the Navy launched its seventh. Down a greasy way of the Newport News (Va.) Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. slid the 20,000-ton Hornet, to be tied up at the fitting-out dock. Typical of the leisurely pace of U. S. defense was the fact that she was launched only six days ahead of the promised date. A little more encouraging was the announcement that she would...
...clouds, could see the ground. The laggard wind had freshened to 9 m.p.h. and Phil Scott had radioed he would come in on the northwest runway. As he made his turn, baggage handlers began wheeling their carts down to the gate where he was to dock...