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...Russian stations is back to pre-War humidity. Newsstands are well filled. As the bell rings, comfortable dining and sleeping cars are thrown open to travelers, who need not struggle for a place. Through regions once stricken with famine, the traveler speeds past fields luxuriant with a ripening harvest. At the great Kursk Station in Moscow he finds piles of perishable foodstuffs, which are being rushed to customers able to pay for them, from a distance of 1000 miles or more...
Tariff. To this issue Conservatives cling as burrs to a Canadian longhorn. Like New Englanders they see a menace in every nutmeg that enters free of duty. Liberals will count on the prosperity engendered by a recent bumper harvest to offset discontent at their lowered tariff schedule...
...important as this question may seem, there is another far more important-the Russian harvest. Now let us make a prophecy . . I foretold that Russian money would be stabilized sooner than in any of the other countries of Europe. Now I say that if Russia has good harvests coming two years in succession her wealth will be greater than the greatest credit she might obtain abroad...
Repeated dispatches say that after a lapse of some ten years Russia is again to have, freely and openly, her vodka. The Soviet Government has decided to manufacture it again, with 40% alcoholic strength. The reason given is that this year a good harvest is expected and the Government, knowing that the peasants would manufacture a great deal of strong drink for themselves, decided that it might as well do the manufacturing itself at a profit...
...North Sea, landed at Harwich. His briefcase contained orders for $75,000,000 worth of machinery, textiles, etc. British manufacturers smacked their lips, rubbed their hands and passed pleasant remarks about the weather. Rakovsky said that he could not pay cash and was about to explain about the wonderful harvest prospects when it became obvious that his audience was no longer interested...