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Robert Rutherford McCormick of the mighty Chicago Tribune, and of the tabloid Daily News, Manhattan (biggest circulation...
...spite of this best and biggest trainpuller, however, the U. S. locomotive industry is now completing its poorest year in recent history. Locomotives are a drug on the market. During the first seven months of 1928, U. S. railroads placed orders for only 171 locomotives.-But Baldwin Locomotive Works alone can build 3,000 locomotives a year. The railroads are not in the market for any new equipment that they can get along without, and they can easily get along without new locomotives. For they have now in storage some 6,900 engines. Many of these engines are aged, inefficient...
Alone among the newspapers the tabloid Daily News (biggest circulation in the U. S.) vented its wrath in a stern editorial, betrayed the liveliest inferiority complex. It baited Messrs. Morgan & Morrow with representing both the U. S. and Wall Street in Mexico, and climaxed: "By such toplofty behavior Mr. Morgan only got himself into a scene where he had not been invited, and called attention in a most awkward and public manner to the close business connections between himself, Miss Morrow's father and the United States government...
Harrison Williams, $3,000,000, Cox & Stevens. It has not yet been decided whether this yacht will be built in the U. S. or in Germany. But it will be the biggest Diesel pleasure yacht in the world...
...present, the U. S. yacht architects with the biggest contracts are Cox & Stevens and John H. Wells, Inc., both of Manhattan...