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...blackstrap from New Orleans to Commercial Solvents' plant at Peoria, Ill, every ten days or so this year, for some $200,000. But the ultimate possibilities of the precedent are much bigger. If I. C. C. authorizes a rate that gets blackstrap out of barges, it may also fix similar rates for iron ore, lumber, coal, sugar, cottonseed oil - and a rate that keeps oil out of pipelines. At I. C. C. hearing Shell Oil Co., Inc. (subsidiary of Shell Union Oil Corp. with millions of dollars invested in pipelines) argued against trainload rates. Biggest squawk may come from...
...leaving the Attorney-Generalship, praised his successor, and said of the Jackson Day dinner: "Incidentally, I'm not supposed to talk about politics." In a few minutes the ordeal was over, the congratulatory messages were pouring in, and the newsmen were pounding out to fix into a pattern a week of shifts, new appointments, advancements, such as Washington has scarcely seen since the early days of the New Deal...
What made the waterfront employers close their port and reject one compromise offer after another to fix up this minor dispute was the chance to hone down Harry Bridges before he brings up new wage demands for his longshoremen this spring. The man who finally came through with a satisfactory compromise was the San Francisco Chronicle's Manager Paul ("I'm just a squirt") Smith, who also settled the costly waterfront tie-up 15 months...
...first contingent of troops from Canada for World War II, a complete division of 12-16,000 men drawn from all nine Provinces (and including about 100 U. S. volunteers who sang Sousa's Washington Post March upon landing). Navy men remembered the fix Britain was in the last time a Canadian vanguard crossed the water. That was in October 1914, when 33,000 men had to be moved in 31 ships from Quebec, plus one from Newfoundland, one from Bermuda. Unknown to the Germans, the British Navy was then embarrassed by the absence of two battle cruisers...
...Furthermore, the completion of all this work places the French High Command in a position to attempt maneuvering operations, going beyond the defensive phase on the day and at the hour it may suit it eventually to fix...