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...this play, as every time it is brought forward it hurts a real fellow and a smart one, Fred Merkle.- However, there have been so many different accounts of this play maybe the public is entitled to some truth in the matter, for after all they pay the freight...
Canada had an 8 cent freight rate advantage over the U. S. to the world market. The U. S. surplus could be moved only at a loss. It was not moving, yet estimates showed that some 200 billion bushels must move before the next harvest...
...President Hoover he stated his problem: Kansas granaries bulged with 40,000,000 bushels of 1928 surplus wheat held for export. It hung over the incoming crop, an imminent incubus. It could not be moved to seaboard with a transportation loss to the producers of 8? per bushel-a freight rate advantage enjoyed by Canada and Argentina on the wheat for the world market. Said Senator Capper: "This wheat must be moved in the next three months, as July wheat will then be coming into the market. Otherwise there would be no storage facilities. ... I have proposed to the Interstate...
Back and forth through the Panama Canal a staunch new freight boat will soon shuttle between Hamburg, Germany, and Oakland, California. Last week roving Mayor John L. Davie of Oakland was in Germany to christen the new freighter Oakland. On his way to Hamburg from Madrid, he stopped at Paris. Sympathetic correspondents reported his observations as follows...
...While freight cars of Mexican corpses lay in the heat and dust of La Reforma, the name of the stalwart Negro buck private John Finezee appeared on the front page of all U. S. papers. Private Finezee was a member of a cavalry patrol of the famed 10th U. S. Cavalry, which discovered a hidden cache of hand grenades that the rebels were attempting to smuggle across the border into Mexico. The rebels appearing a few minutes later to claim their bombs, a brush ensued, in the course of which Private Finezee received a bullet in the chest. Painfully...