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...moved east to sprawling, plain-surrounded Winnipeg as superintendent of CPR's locomotive shops there which serve all its Western lines. In 1910 he left the position of foreman of all CPR shops to join the Canadian Northern as superintendent of rolling stock. His slow progression eastward was completed in 1915 when he was shifted to Toronto, there to become, in two years, general manager of Canadian Northern's eastern lines. In 1918 he be came an assistant vice president and now, acting president, he will soon in all probability be president in name as well as in power...
...hose stalled the train, of which the marchers took informal possession. Ice melted from valuable perishable freight while railroad and county police argued with the determined mob. After 24 hours during which the railroad not only did not move 'its stranded cars but virtually ceased freight operations eastward over the line, the militia was called out. Ugliness and perhaps bloodshed were avoided by East St. Louis merchants and ex-service men who provided 200 Ib. of sausage meat and free truck transportation to Washington, Ind., thus shifting an unpleasant situation into the lap of a neighbor State...
Under General Nakamura troops had pushed down the Sungari River to within 30 miles of the Amur River which at that point is the frontier. Eastward from Harbin and westward from Harbin other Japanese columns advanced out along the arms of the Chinese Eastern, which touch Russian territory at each extremity. Mysteriously a Japanese troop train was blown up on the C. E. R., 40 Japanese killed, 100 wounded...
...main stream of pedagogical migration is from South and West eastward to the older, better known universities where salaries are generally higher, chances of fame better. But any chart of professorial movements would also show a trend toward such midwestern institutions as the Universities of Chicago and Wisconsin, an even more pronounced trend toward California. Last week occurred an important shift in the West. Dr. John Donald Hicks, distinguished dean of the college of arts & sciences of the University of Nebraska, resigned to become professor of American history at Dr. Glenn Frank's University of Wisconsin. He will replace...
...first of four 7,500,000 cu.-ft. ships, two for the North Atlantic service, two for a projected Pacific route. Even larger than the LZ-129 now abuilding in Germany, each ship will carry 80 passengers, 25,000 lb. of mail and express, will make the eastward passage in two and a half days, the westward in three. To expedite the mails, the Federal Government will pay about $20 a mile for an average load of 10,000 lb., $8 more than it spends at present for shipment on crack liners. Individual passenger fares will be about...