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...arena for this performance, an aged novel has been unearthed from the shelves of some bankrupt circulating library, its cover has been dusted, and its plot has been transmitted to celluloid. The utterly fantastic doings somehow involve the wife of a Breton fisherman (Garson), who takes up with a nasty friend of her supposedly dead husband. But of course, just as she is about to marry the friend, (after four reels of indecision), the husband shows up and the two men have the customary brawl on the customary cliff-top. You have but one guess who it is that falls...
...Antonio. Last week, the line's young (26) president, Earl F. Slick, who is also president of Independent Airfreight Association, laid the independents' case before the President's Air Policy Commission. "If this rate goes through," he warned, "we'll all be bankrupt in six months...
...York, practically bankrupt when he took office, was a sound and stable concern when he left. During his twelve years, New York built a new city prison, 67 schools, 262 playgrounds, 14 vast housing projects, two hospitals, great stretches of parkway, the Triborough and Bronx-Whitestone Bridges, the Queens-Midtown Tunnel. It bought and consolidated its subway and surface transportation systems, built miles of new underground rail lines. But he had given the city more than material benefits; he had stamped on the serpent of municipal corruption until it moved only faintly; he had proved that "reform mayors" need...
...city in the U.S. has a more rattletrap public transportation system than Chicago. Its streetcars, owned by four different companies (all bankrupt) and operated by a fifth, are mostly high-riding "antediluvian arks." Wooden coaches of the McKinley era still clatter around the Loop's rickety elevated lines (also operated by a bankrupt company). On streetcars and El trains alike, lurching is continual, overcrowding chronic and wrecks frequent...
...condition that all the city's transportation facilities be unified-and improved. His city councilmen dutifully passed a unification plan. The plan was approved by voters in a referendum, by surface and elevated line bondholders, and by the federal court which had jurisdiction over the bankrupt operating companies. But in 1943 the Illinois Commerce Commission rejected Kelly's proposals as "unsound...