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...tariff would run the delivered price up to 72¢ per bu., exclusive of freight charges. The Soviet sales were reported at about 95¢ per bu. for May delivery. Delivery would be easily possible if Russia, as has been charged, were ready to take a loss to "dump...
...nightly are tugged municipal scows bearing tons & tons of New York City's garbage. Twenty miles south of Scotland Light they dump their burdens into the dark sea, return. Barge E of the city's Sanitation Commission garbage fleet last week completed her usual run, lay, supposedly empty, at her berth almost under Brooklyn Bridge. At 3 a. m. about 100 men appeared there with three big trucks, swarmed over...
...sundry war materiel. Overhead, Red planes swung across the sky, on land there were military maneuvers, at sea Red warships wallowed in sham battle. Paradoxically, the parading crowds carried banners not praising war but decrying it; the Red planes dove, not to loose steel and nitroglycerine eggs, but to dump fluttering leaves of peace propaganda. The occasion: International Anti-War Day, held on the 16th anniversary of mobilization for the World War (Aug. 1). At Moscow the climax of the day came when the Volunteer Society for Aerial & Chemical Defense presented the army with 51 Soviet-made fighting planes, purchased...
That Postmaster General Brown was not ready to accept any old expedient to increase postal revenue became clear last week when he turned down a proposition from direct-mail advertisers who wanted him to handle their circulars without putting them to the expense of addressing. They wanted to dump into any post office great bundles of circulars for which they would pay the usual rates. Each letter carrier would have been given a bundle with orders to leave one circular at each stop on his route. Overburdened postmen would have stooped even lower under this enormous new load. Declared Postmaster...
...fill their depleted beds, the oystermen of Delaware Bay, N. J., go to 1,000,000 acres of Government-protected seed beds: dredge for oyster youngsters, then dump them on the commercial farms. From May 1 to June 1 this harvest is allowed but May 1 is the big day. Since seed oysters, by law, can only be gathered from sunrise to sunset, and since the boats engaging in the act must be sail vessels, the annual stocking-up takes on the nature of a race. Last week promptly at 6 a. m. on May 1 a cannon resounded...