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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your issue of July 15 contains an error on page 13. Pittsburgh is not the first city operating an aluminum street car. Cleveland had its first aluminum street car nearly two years ago. Come to Cleveland if you wish to see the best in street cars, and the car riders pay for them under the Taylor-Tom Johnson franchise...
...sizzling Paris heat at last proved too much for even grizzly-bearded M. Raymond Poin-caré. He, "Lion of Lorraine," President of France during the War and for 35 months past her indomitable Prime Minister, will be on the 20th of next month 69 years old. In the course of the present debt debate (TIME, July 22), he had addressed the Chamber for a total of more than 37 hours (three or four hours daily) reading every word from sheets covered with his neat, almost microscopic handwriting. Result: the strain gave him a high "gastric fever," his physician last...
Nothing could have been more fortunate for the Government, for the cause of ratification, for the Prime Minister himself. The Deputies, overawed by M. Poin-caré's gargantuan logic, had given him a vote of confidence 304 to 239 on a minor issue, but they had also grown sick and tired of the sound and sight of him. Sighs of relief stirred the sultry air as the Government's defense was taken over by pouchy-eyed Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, wise and wily as an old tomcat, nine times Prime Minister of France, incomparably her most winning...
...Foreign Minister assumed the Government's defense. With fire and slash M. Franklin-Bouillion sought to destroy by an emotional onslaught the Government's chief logical reason why France must ratify her debt agreement not later than Aug. 1 next. On that date, as M. Poin-caré had incessantly reminded the Chamber, there would fall due the debt of $400,000,000 owed by France for War stocks purchased from the U. S. after the Armistice. The only way to escape paying this huge sum now and in cash would be to ratify the general debt settlement...
Prime statistic is the weekly figure on car-loadings, vital index of the nation's business. Fruit from California and Florida, motor cars from Detroit, coal from Pennsylvania, textiles from New England, clothing from New York, cotton from the South, wheat from the West?all commodities move, and move largely by rail. High car-loadings show brisk business, efficient carriers. Pleased was the American Railway Association last week to announce that car-loadings for the first 26 weeks of 1929 made an all-time record for loadings for the first half of any year. Loadings for the week ended June...