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After two years of feverish construction during which more than $10,000,000 was poured into rights, roadbeds and tunnels, the competing lines agreed to return again to their backyards. So eight months before completion the "South Penn" was abandoned, peace reigned in the Alleghenies and no appreciable dent was made in the $200,000,000 Vanderbilt fortune...
...some 48 hours Adolf Hitler grew more and more excited about the "insult to German honor" which he saw in the coldness of Britain and France to all schemes for doing anything about the dent in the Leipzig. He was also emboldened by the daily bad news, from Russia, bitterest foe of Germany (see p. 18). Telling old von Neurath not to stir out of Berlin, Herr Hitler rasped orders which sent flashing off to London this stiff announcement: "The situation caused by the repeated attacks of the Reds in Spain on German warships does not allow the absence...
...Friedrichshafen, where a larger sister of the Emdenburg is nearing completion, stunned workers doggedly kept at work though even Dr. Eckener admitted: "It is impossible to foretell what effect this acci- dent may have on the future of the airship...
Codified, numbered and formally adopted by the company's directors years ago were the 15 points of Armco policy, starting off with a declaration of high business ethics, winding up with a pru dent word about making good banking connections "in advance of their need" and liberally interlaced with such pur poses as the promotion of "Americanism and a real, live spirit of patriotism." Confused though its policies may seem, Armco is a money-making proposition, old Mr. Verity writing his 20,000 stockholders last week that 1936 earnings were $6,441,000, an improvement over...
...London, Western Clock Co., makers of Big Ben alarm clocks, of La Salle, Ill., was enjoined from advertising its products in Britain as "made by makers of Big Ben" upon the complaint the of E. Dent & Co., Ltd., which made famed Big Ben atop the Houses of Parliament, named upon completion in 1858 for Commissioner of Works Sir Benjamin Hall...