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...next day at 7:45 a.m. and on to St. Joseph-where in a raw breeze, surrounded by rouged Indian ladies, gum-chewing, feather-bonneted Indian bucks, Mr. Farley launched hoarsely into a lengthy eulogy of the Pony Express...
They supplied military needs which no other source in China could produce so efficiently-gloves, caps, greatcoats, padded clothes, gauze, tents, field cots. They saved many a soldier on the northern front from freezing last winter by producing 100,000 woolen blankets. Operating near sources of raw materials and usually for local consumption, they eliminated transportation costs. Above all they provided millions of refugees who trekked west on the heels of freedom with the hope of lasting relief in the form of jobs. At initial cost of only $7, the cooperatives can give a man work which permanently supports...
...papermen were more immediately worried about pulp. Expanding their facilities, improving their technology, reaching into Southern pine forests for raw material, U. S. pulp manufacturers now have enough potential capacity to supply basic U. S. needs. But with Canada's mills already working at capacity to supply Empire needs, Britain may look to U. S. pulp mills to supply her Scandinavian and Finnish deficit. Speculators were quick to appreciate the fact. Jumping into the market the morning after Scandinavia's invasion, they bought shares in integrated paper companies, made market leaders out of such stocks as International, Union...
...when Asahel Bush ("Asahel I"), a young (26) Massachusetts attorney and printer, had clapped a printing press into the hold of a Yankee clipper for the 15,000-mile voyage round the Horn, lit out himself by packet boat for the rich, raw, pioneer Oregon Territory. He founded the Oregon Statesman at Oregon City, later moved to Salem when it was made the Territorial capital, became State printer, by 1862 was rich enough to retire from the publishing business...
...logic displayed by the gentlemen of the Tribune seems muddy at best. Certainly Greenland is not the rich prize that Germany would covet to help support it through a long war or even provide it with raw materials in time of peace. A second theory that has been much mentioned is that Greenland would be valuable to Germany as a naval base or air base. There seems to be little possibility of such a move in any but the very distant future, however. Even at the beginning of the war, the German navy was not strong enough to carry...