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...rats, lice, cockroaches, spiders, ants, flies, snakes, frogs, toads and waterbugs that make their home in the municipal dump of Lynn, Mass, spent an unhappy week, their second unhappy week since the cool September nights began. Upon them, even when it was not raining, had descended tons and tons of water. Then came gases, liquid chemicals. Now came fire. The dump was surrounded and assaulted by blueshirted firemen, bent not on putting the fire out but on spreading it. Soon the dump became a truly impossible place to live in and a great many prudent roaches and rats began moving...
...threat of subsidized exports may have been partly intended to support the market. It served also as a club over the conference of wheat-producing nations which met again this week in London to try to agree on crop restriction. What one nation calls "subsidizing exports" other nations call "dumping." He proposed, however, to dump wheat in the Orient, thereby cutting into the exports of Canada and Australia to those markets. Not according to the Golden Rule was Secretary Wallace's dumping threat, for the U. S. not only has a law against foreigners dumping...
...nation-wide anti-crime movement, had speeded up negotiations at the eleventh hour, abandoning their demand for $75,000 when Daniel O'Connell insisted that $40,000 was all they would get. Aware that the money was marked, the extortionists threatened to kill young O'Connell and "dump him on the doorstep" unless they were given opportunity to exchange it at a New York bank. The uncles acquiesced...
Subject to ratification by the eight governments concerned, the agreement would bind "India, China and Spain as holders of large stocks of silver and . . . Australia, Canada, the United States, Mexico and Peru as the principal producers of silver" not to dump the white metal on the world market for the next four years. Sales of surplus silver by the holding nations would be reduced to about the same extent that the producers agree to withhold silver from the world market by purchasing it for their treasury reserves of coin or bullion...
...anything, more pathetic than the military-war crowds in London, Berlin and Paris (all looking very much alike), whole villages of refugees, white-hooded orphans. Hunger is a primary theme behind the lines. One picture shows five old crones poking into a Berlin garbage dump. Another, the most cruel in the whole collection, exhibits a young Russian girl, her naked body shriveled and deformed by famine...