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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...round trip rates for these trains are as follows: Parlor car seats, $13; sleeping car, $13; drawing room, $15 per person (minimum of four persons); day coach, $7.50. A bus will be run to and from the New Haven Station and the Yale Bowl at an additional cost of $1 per person for the round trip...
...guard of the Japanese invading force of 60,000, almost raced into Canton last week, having advanced 125 miles in ten days flat, without having been obliged to fight a single major battle. The Japanese, who had been told they must make "heroic efforts to take Canton at any cost by November 3," Birthday Anniversary of the great Emperor Meiji, thus found themselves 13 days ahead of schedule...
Year ago New York State Superintendent of Insurance Louis H. Pink started hearings on the matter, suggested a sliding interest scale based upon highest grade industrial bond yields plus 1% for expenses. The insurance companies at first opposed any reduction at all, insisting that it would increase the cost of all insurance by forcing investment in short-term securities and reducing interest earnings, would decrease dividends to policyholders (non-borrowers as well as borrowers), would encourage borrowing for speculation during prosperity, and during depression would tend to cause a run on life insurance companies...
...hook-and-ladder is 55 feet long overall, cost $18,325, and features a windshield complete with wiper for the man who steers from the rear...
...plans have been the real-estate and business interests entrenched inside the "Loop." But last week a plan that contained no threat to the "Loop" was on its way to fulfillment. Signed by President Roosevelt was a PWA allotment of 18 million lend-spend dollars, representing 45% of the cost of a $40,000,000 7.6-mile subway system which Chicago must start building before January 1, and must have substantially completed by June 30, 1940. To be tunneled at a depth of 35 feet through the stratum of blue clay underlying Chicago's 25 feet of largely-filled...