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...deficit of $139,000,000. Last year it cut this loss down to about $40,000,000. But the return on its invested capital was only 1.8%. Yet during Depression two eastern trunk lines have spent or will shortly spend a sum sufficient to build and equip a system as big as Atlantic Coast Line R.R. New York Central's improvements on Man- hattan's West Side call for a total outlay of $175,000,000. Pennsylvania's great electrification and terminal program is costing...
Experts from Chicago's Field Museum sailed from Manhattan on an expedition to jungly Senegal and Nigeria, where they will track down African mammals, collect rare birds to equip a new hall in the Museum. At Dakar in Senegal they will be joined by the expedition's sponsor, white-haired Sarah Lavanburg Straus, 74, widow of Oscar Solomon Straus, onetime Minister to Turkey, aunt of Ambassador to France Jesse Isidor Straus. No tyro at roughing it, robust Mrs. Straus equipped and led an expedition to Nyasaland and British East Africa in 1929, spent last winter poking about Mayan...
...Atholl Highlanders, numbering about 500 Murraymen, get into their uniforms for great occasions but have no barracks or permanent organization in peacetime. In Wartime the Dukes of Atholl have the feudal right to levy additional troops from the Clan, uniform and equip them. They wear the Murray of Atholl tartan of blue and green squares, divided by thick black bands shot with...
...surprising that no Harvard youth has had the bright idea of asking Mr. Harkness to equip each of the new Houses with a commodious garage, to be free, of course, to residents. Surely, the use of an automobile is as necessary to the modern student as a library! Without it, what can he possibly do in his spare hours and week-ends? Must he sit around his room all the time reading books? Or, if he wishes a little exercise, must he WALK to Soldiers field? If he wants to go to a show in Boston must he patronize...
During the War, Friends Toklas & Stein tried to live in Paris as if nothing was happening ; when that became impossible they went to Mallorca. The attack on Verdun brought them back to Paris, where they decided to equip and drive a Ford truck for the American Fund for French Wounded. Miss Stein did the driving, with fair success. (She never learned how to back very well.) The War over, they settled down again to Art. By this time Gertrude Stein's Three Lives (published in 1909) had given her a reputation among young U. S. writers. "Gertrude Stein...