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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another agent of Irving ("Waxey Gordon") Wexler. whose wide interests include theatrical promotion (Strike Me Pink), liquor and an indictment for $400,000 tax evasion, was shot down as he got out of a bus in The Bronx last week. Owen Victor ("Owncy") Madden, best known Manhattan racketeer, whose Staten Island brewery is reportedly now operating legally, was let out of Sing Sing, where he had been since last July for violation of parole. In his pocket was $17.52 he had made growing carnations and jonquils...
...m.p.h. faster than other U. S. expresses operate. The new train may make the long run between Omaha and Los Angeles in 30 hr. The steam journey now takes 48 hr. Speed, Union Pacific men hope, will provide effective competition against air travel. Cheap operating costs may beat bus transportation...
Other experiments with streamlined rail transportation deal with single, separately motored cars. Michigan Central has a gasoline-driven car which is virtually a flanged-wheel motor bus. It does 70 to 90 m.p.h. Philadelphia & Western is using 50 m.p.h. streamlined interurban coaches driven electrically from third rails. France has several gasoline-motored streamlined buses on rails. One, a Bugatti. can do 110 m.p.h., may go on a regular Paris-Deauville run this summer...
Like a balky bus. the Disarmament Conference moves fitfully. It took a tremendous leap forward last week when diplomats in Rome agreed to a revised version of Benito Mussolini's Four-Power Pact, when U. S. Ambassador-at-Large Norman H. Davis pledged a mild degree of U. S. co-operation in enforcing peace (TIME, May 29). Last week the bus jolted to an abrupt halt. Brakes were applied by French Foreign Minister Joseph Paul-Boncour before even his own Prime Minister realized...
...rated one of the ablest operating men in railroads, sent to the "Mop" by Kuhn, Loeb & Co. to help straighten out its affairs, still gets $12,750 a year as executive committee chairman of affiliated Denver and Rio Grande, $6,000 as president of Missouri Pacific Trans- portation Co. (bus line). ¶ In Chicago, result of disclosing that he gets $100,000 and has an option on 100,000 shares of Montgomery Ward stock at $11 (TIME, April 10), President Sewell Lee Avery was questioned by stockholders at their annual meeting, explained that he had refused an offer...