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This fleet is said to be terrorized by a rum pirate called the Gray Ghost, a big steel trawler, which raids the rum ships and steals their cargoes. Being engaged in illicit trade themselves they are afraid to appeal to the United States or to the British Government, whose flag they usually fly for protection...
...expansion in production and trade, and the upward trend in raw material prices, were both strongly maintained. Perhaps the most interesting and significant examples of economic tendencies now visible throughout almost all lines of business, have been furnished by recent developments in iron, steel, oil, cotton...
...first named industry is now experiencing a veritable boom, attended with record production and mounting prices. Current production of pig iron has surpassed even the unusually active month of March, 1920, which followed the futile steel strike of 1919, and is now only some 3 or 4% below the huge war-time output attained in September, 1918, just before the Armistice. Despite this sensational rate of production recently attained, however, the demand is so urgent and extensive that new price advances have occurred in pig, and in both semi-finished steel and several steel products. Last month the Steel Corporation...
...fact not generally known to Americans that the head of the all important Labor Research Section of the International Labor Office is an American expert, Dr. Royal Meeker. It should also be of interest to Americans that the League has installed an up to date American library, housed in steel bookcases, and run on the card-catalogue system. The League Librarian is Miss Wilson, an American lady...
...France wins, or should a compromise be agreed upon, Stinnes is still the hero; for through a back-door agreement with the Comite des Forges, the great French steel trust, he will be able to exchange the kingly throne for the Emperor's Crown. And conceivably, the dictatorial tactics of General Degoutte are a barrage put up by the magnates of Paris, who, in serving themselves, will also serve Hugo Stinnes...