Word: carriere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...principal of one, have five periods in classroom daily, hunt up delinquent children, find clothing for the indigent, keep school busses running, raise money to carry on athletic program. . . . For past two years my salary has been lower in my town than that of any local mail clerk, mail carrier, business manager or administrator, preacher, and of certain filling station employees and retail clerks. . . . Assets: one car (runs best in garage); three suits clothes (when wearing two of which I find a strictly upright carriage advisable) ; one pair worn shoes (but feet in good shape). Also one sense of humor...
...RFChairman Jesse Jones announced a final plan for his pet railroad project, partitioning of Minneapolis & St. Louis (mileage: 1,627) which has been in receivership for twelve years (TIME, Oct. 29). About 500 mi. of this decrepit carrier will be junked, the rest parceled out among eight adjacent systems. Though details were still secret, Illinois Central will apparently be the chief gainer, acquiring a direct entrance over its own rails into Minneapolis. Mr. Jones will provide the big carriers with a total of $7,200,000 to buy the individual pieces...
...Land Trust was organized in 1888. Its assets were 3,450,000 acres of Texas land originally granted by the State of Texas to Texas Pacific Railway. Its liabilities were $10,370,000 of certificates issued in a reorganization of that railroad which segregated the land grants from the carrier properties. And its purpose was liquidation...
...meter relay, Eddie Farrell claims to have a team which is good to break eight minutes, though past performances scarcely warrant this prediction. If they do break eight minutes, however, the anchor man will find himself sprinting against Manhattan's baton carrier...
...system, pending permanent legislation. Zealous lest the New Deal's attitude toward the "profit motive" be overlooked, the President said: "I concur in this recommendation . . . provided always that the grant of this duty to the Interstate Commerce Commission be subject to provisions against unreasonable profits by any private carrier. . . . It is only fair to suggest that during this period any profits at all by such companies should be a secondary consideration. Government aid in this case is legitimate in order to save companies from disastrous loss but not in order to provide profits...