Business & Finance: Export Shake-Up

One day in November 1917, a hard, dark chunk of a man walked round & round a team of 34 dray horses at the foot of 132nd St., Manhattan, feeding each & every horse a sugar lump. On a tremendous trailer attached to the team was a submarine which had just been hoisted out of the Hudson River. The man turned and walked down the street, the 34 horses following him. Thus, while thousands jam-packed the sidewalks, did Truckman Henry Herbermann haul the German U-boat C-5 to Central Park to be used as...

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