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...then explain the paradox that, with little or no increase in the volume of business they can collectively expect to get, all the great maritime freight carriers are building newer, faster ships? Explanation: each is girding to fight with newer, more efficient weapons for a larger individual share of the bone which is admittedly not big enough to nourish...
Ordinarily a crack British freight line sells the old ships it is ready to discard to Lithuanians or Albanians et al.; but The Commercial pertinently recalls that several such old tubs have recently been broken up and sold for a song as junk, the owners preferring not to get a good price for them as ships for fear they would crop up in competition later, much as sellers of new automobiles look on "used cars" as a menace to their business...
...that it "has gone far afield from its original functions and has constituted itself a court in economics." He recalled the fact that as an Associate Justice Mr. Hughes in 1914 had written the famed Shreveport decision which Senator Glass claimed destroyed the last vestige of State control of freight rates.* North Dakota's Senator Nye chimed in: "The sooner citizens get rid of this idea that a judge is more honorable than a legislator, the clearer will become our perception of the evils of judicial usurpation...
...This prosperous coal road is a very desirable strategic link between Buffalo and Pittsburgh, the two Great Eastern Gateways. Over it the B. & O. will reach Buffalo, the most important Eastern outlet of the Great Lakes. The road will also be a vital part of the new low-grade freight route between New York and Chicago projected by the B. & O. From the Alleghany Corp. of their allies, the Brothers Van Sweringen, the B. & O. will buy control...
...college authorities probably think that boxing is associated with prize fighting and a low class of people. They don't realize that boxing makes good men out of a lot of disreputables. Take Jack Dempsey for example. He was once a hobo on a freight train, but look at him now. He's well off, moves in decent company, wears a dinner coat four or five times a week and likes it. That is what boxing did for him, just as it has done for Tunney, Sharkey, and countless other capable young fellows...