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...wheat into Britain profitably Mr. Bennett needed two things: 1) a preferential tariff; 2) protection against "dumped" Russian wheat. The first was not easy but it was against the latter provision that Mr. Baldwin and his colleagues fought longest and hardest. Russia is a good customer of Britain for manufactured goods. She must sell Britain something to have money to buy those goods. Finally Mr. Baldwin promised that Britain would prohibit the entry of any state-controlled commodity sold so cheaply as to destroy Dominion preference (i. e. at less than world prices). Mr. Bennett wanted the word shall used...
...Chicago Cubs: the longest baseball game of the current National League season (19 innings). 3 to 2 from the Boston Braves; at Chicago. Pitcher Guy Bush, who replaced Pitcher Bud Tinning for Chicago in the 18th inning, pitched one inning, received credit for the victory. Next day the Cubs beat the Braves 4 to 3 in 15 innings. Pitcher Bush replaced Pitcher Bob Smith in the 15th, received credit for another victory. In a National League pennant race even closer than last year's, the Brooklyn Dodgers last week overtook the Pittsburgh Pirates in second place, whittled Chicago...
...shifted to Toronto, there to become, in two years, general manager of Canadian Northern's eastern lines. In 1918 he be came an assistant vice president and now, acting president, he will soon in all probability be president in name as well as in power of the longest railroad in North America...
Last week the 72nd Congress waded out of a dark and troubled jungle of legislation and went home to rest until after the elections. For 224 days-the longest stretch since 1922-a Republican Senate and a Democratic House had been groping and stumbling, hacking and thrashing through the thickest set of national problems that ever sprang up in the U. S. in peacetime. Midnight adjournment found the Senate mouthing over Prohibition, the House swapping political wisecracks and President Hoover absent from the Capitol...
Bridges: 10) Missouri-Kansas-Texas R. R.'s five-span bridge across the Missouri River at Boonville, Mo., including a 408-ft. lift span, world's longest, which can be raised vertically to give clearance to river traffic, 11) The world's biggest all-welded bridge, 161 ft. long at Pilsen, Czechoslovakia, over the Skoda Works' railroad yards. The previous record-holder was the 134-ft. bridge at Chicopee Falls, Mass...