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...Delmars drove from Hollywood to Agua Caliente, lost so much gambling at the Casino that they had to borrow money for gas to drive home. When they came to file their joint income tax return for 1933, Eugene remembered to deduct the $1,200 he had lost at chemin de fer, Vina the $300 she lost at roulette. Under the Revenue Act of 1934 this posed the problem as to whether the Delmars had undertaken their gambling for recreation or profit. Called before the Board of Tax Appeals, chunky Eugene insisted he had gambled for profit, to prove his experience...
...voyageurs, with 100 locomotives drawing boxcars, cars that kept tipping over on their back wheels, members disguised as Indians, African savages and Scotsmen on skis, had a separate parade of their own, more disorderly than the main Legion parade. Two days later, as "Chef de Chemin de Fer," the 40 & 8 chose Fred Fraser, chief of the mail and records division of the Veterans' Administration in Washington...
Least poverty-stricken of the French railroads is the Chemin de Per du Nord, whose President is white-mustached Edouard de Rothschild. Last week, as his railroad was in danger of being taken out of his hands, he got his second bellyful of state socialism within a year. He was one of the regents of the Bank of France until Premier Blum booted the "200 Families" out of their ancient domination (TIME. July...
...official name of the only railway in Ethiopia is Compagnie du Chemin de Fer Franco-Ethiopien de Djibouti à Addis Ababa. Between magnificent modern stations at either end of the line stretch 494 miles of rough, single-track narrow-gauge roadbed over which a collection of ramshackle second-hand French rolling stock normally makes bi-weekly trips. One of the few pieces of equipment which can compare in splendor with the two terminals is Emperor Haile Selassie's white private car. Because natives along the barren right-of-way are in the habit of prying up steel rails...
...failure of the Somme offensive, they called for further massed attacks on the German Western Front. Lloyd George strenuously opposed the plan, favored a surprise attack on the Italian front. Overruled as a bumptious layman, he says, he proceeded to do everything he could to make the 1917 offensives (Chemin des Dame:, Passchendaele) a howling success. Though he is hurt that "the whole responsibility for the Nivelle offensive" should be fastened on him, he admits he was enthusiastic about it once he had put his shoulder to the wheel. "Had the Nivelle plan been carried out in its integrity...